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• The Evidence Is In

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 126
  Earlier this year as the Ohio General Assembly considered Governor Stricklands proposed "evidence-based model," we were regularly regaled with claims that this new model would transform Ohios K-12 education system. The evidence-based model was based on "scientific research" and would provide funding based on what ...
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• Evan Harris accuses Alan Johnson of a "litany of errors" over Professor Nutt dismissal comments

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Dr Evan Harris, the Lib Dem MP and science spokesperson has written a letter to Alan Johnson the Home Secretary drawing his attention to a number of factual inaccuracies in the statements Mr Johnson made to the House of Commons last Monday in the debate about his dismissal of Professor Nutt. Dr Harris charges Mr ...
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• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
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• The barriers perceived to prevent the successful implementation of evidence-based practice by speech and language therapists

  
  COMD News — Authority: 451
  Background: There is currently a paucity of research investigating what speech and language therapists, in particular, perceive are the greatest barriers to implementing evidence-based practice. Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived barriers that are faced by speech and language therapists ...
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• QD: News Every Day--waiting for the weekend

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 503
  ACP Internists daily digest of news and events continues with this weekends expected vote on health care reform, H1N1 influenzas ascendance as the dominant strain, and Texas look at doctor-owned hospitals. Health care reform Everyone is gearing up for the expected weekend vote in the U.S. House on health care ...
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• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
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• Idiotic article from Labour MP on CiF - brilliant comments below

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  I was simultaneously depressed and then immensely heartened by an article I read on Comment Is Free earlier. The Labour MP John Richardson has written an article full of prejudice and nonsensical arguments regarding drugs policy. He also unbelievably even tries to smear Professor Nutt as a bad parent. However I then ...
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• The Needs Of The Few vs The Cost To The Many

  
  The KnifeMan — Authority: 114
  One of the problems with trying to adopt an evidence based approach, to anything, but in particular, to medical testing and treatment, is that population studies do not tell individual stories. The problem with using individual stories is that the plural of anecdote is not data, and association does not prove ...
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• Bad Science

  
  Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley — Authority: 430
  An eventful evening yesterday, I thought. Most of the controversy prevailed around Young Keiths new firework.  In these credit-crunched times, we decided it would be cheaper to make our own from scratch.  As Beaker People will be aware, this has involved collecting the crystallised residue around the edges of the ...
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• Decisions, data, and interpretations

  
  marginally subversive — Authority: 126
  As always, Seth Godin has got me thinking in his latest post - when data and decisions collide. These are just a few of the millions of examples of counter-intuitive data-driven findings. It took Galileo decades to persuade people the light objects fell as fast as heavy ones... even though he was busy dropping them ...
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• Quote of the day

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  From Professor David Nutt: If your policy is informed by an underlying moral imperative, be open about what that is, and dont try to disguise it with a veneer of pseudo-science.
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• Damer mixes sense into pop ed discussion

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 103
  I only occasionally read the Ed Week team blog by Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch, Bridging Differences, but I was avidly gobbling up the content and comments of one recent post. Why? Well, the much admired Mary Damer had waded into the fray and was tossing around a lot of sensible comments. It’s worth reading, [...]
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• Nutt Sacked by Johnson: A Victory for Ideology over Evidence

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 534
  While I was mid-upgrade, Professor David Nutt was sensationally sacked as the chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs by the home secretary, Alan Johnson. The news was broken by BBC reporter Mark Easton , who has been following conflict between science and politics that has been simmering ever since the ...
  6 days ago

• Evaluation of the Efficacy of Communication-Based Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorders

  
  COMD News — Authority: 451
  This literature review examines the present level of evidence in support of communication-based treatments for children with autism spectrum disorders. Reviews to date have reported on research published through 2002. The current article included 36 studies published between 2002 and 2007. Best available evidence is ...
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• Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...
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• Kids Choice for Art in Hospitals

  
  Health Care Fine Art — Authority: 117
  Many people who select art for hospitals believe that children need different art than adults. It is common on pediatric wards to see teddy bears, clowns and Disneyesque cartoons. Is that really what kids want? Dr. Upali Nanda and her team of researchers surveyed 64 children to find out what they preferred. Key ...
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• EBM: it’s about evidence, not physicians or patients…

  
  (the) health informaticist — Authority: 114
  There’s some chatter on the evidence-based healthcare message board about the definition of “evidence based medicine” and I have to say I get a bit fed up sometimes as people always talk of the “holy trinity” of EBM, that of: use of evidence + physicians’ experience + patient choice. But I mean to say, ...
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• Expert advice

  
  The Samovar — Authority: 91
  The recent sacking of David Nutt – formerly head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) – for giving scientific advice that showed the stupidity of the government’s drugs policy, suggests taking a look at the role of expert advice in policy. The problem is that the government can have an ...
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• Alan Johnsons leadership chances are now finished

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  He always claimed that he didnt want it and wasnt up to it. Maybe we should have listened to him more keenly as the debacle of the last few days has shown Alan Johnson in a very poor light. He sacked the head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Professor David Nutt on Friday which then garnered a lot of ...
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• Treatment-resistant bipolar depression: towards a new definition

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Treatment-resistant bipolar depression: towards a new definition, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2009 I. Pacchiarotti 1,2 , L. Mazzarini 1,2 , F. Colom 1 , J. Sanchez-Moreno 1 , P. Girardi 2 , G. D. Kotzalidis 2 , E. Vieta 1 1 Bipolar Disorders Programme, Institute of Clinical ...
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