Tag: bias in medicine

How Doctors’ Bias Leads to Unfair and Unsound Medical Triage

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From Aeon: When someone is sick or needs the help of a physician, who should decide what is appropriate — what blood tests and imaging studies...

“SCIENTIFIC REGRESS”

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William A. Wilson presents shocking evidence that a lot of published research is false and that science’s self-correcting mechanisms are broken. “There is no...

“Why Our Peer Review System is a Toothless Watchdog”

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From STAT: “Imagine that someone offers to give you a guard dog. When the wretched creature arrives, you find out that she is calf-high,...