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epidemiology nerds: can u think of any example of effect modification where the interaction effect goes in opposite direction to indiv ones?
RT @BioMedCentral: Q&A w/ @bengoldacre on International Clinical Trials Day & what's in store #alltrials ow.ly/lcsl1 #ICTD
It's INTERNATIONAL CLINICAL TRIALS DAY woooohooo #alltrials biomedcentral.com/biome/internat…
The kind of pastiche mediocrity you get in Eurovision tunes seems even more pointless now anyone can create it with Garageband on a laptop.
How developed countries shoot themselves in the futurecock by failing to invest in science. feedproxy.google.com/~r/miller-mccu…
It's the new episode of What Pen. b3ta.com/links/What_Pen
Tracking change over time in individual politicians utterances on gun control. One of the best data vis ever. wordsandvotes.sandyhookpromise.org/#/influential/…
Mr Sulu from Star Trek Responds To "Traditional" Marriage Fans RT @GeorgeTakei: buzzfeed.com/mjs538/george-…
Louis CK asks Donald Rumsfeld some tough questions about whether he's a lizard. One for the David Icke fans. youtu.be/dK8Y2nO_8TM
ace! RT @zatonski: We have managed to advertise "Write your MEP" on Polish Radio! #alltrials sceptycy.org/?p=1406 bit.ly/10txNSY
how incompetent am i to think that buying two pairs of stay-pressed trousers and 5 boring non-iron shirts is a *really amazing lifehack*
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight and @bengoldacre wondering which field has worse media coverage, politics or medicine blogs.spectator.co.uk/jonathan-jones…
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This seems sensible MT @codenamecathy: Lots in press about A&E crisis. Is it poor GP provision? bit.ly/15SHwqN
material scientists: why can't we have folding portable raincoats, size of matchboxes, made of robust film? is it the folding? a flat one?
MT @senseaboutsci: MEPs under fire from 350 #pharma lobbyists. Tell yours why trial results must be shared bit.ly/17yrKRK #AllTrials
We need your help to stop trial results being hidden from doctors and patients. Write to your MEPs bit.ly/10txNSY #alltrials
What NIMBYs call "green belt" always just looks like big flat agricultural food growing facilities to me. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
There is huge dissent in the academic community about whether climate change is man made. Huge. Really huge. Really. bit.ly/17wGEYL
all this science is jolly interesting but i'm more interested in whether i'll get wheelbite with 75mm wheels on Revenge trucks and no riser.
just dived in on series 2, unexpectedly Louie is well funny and clever.
I must say the whole driving experience is radically improved when you have a full complement of functioning spark plugs.
As though it were from @bengoldacre, a story of impressive pharma fraud in Indian generic drug manufacture features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/15/ran…
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RT @iainh_z: Got #negativeresults or data still unpublished? There's no charge @F1000Research till end of August f1000.com/resources/Nega…
interesting graph of retractions against GRANT success. make of it what you will. bit.ly/12AGNVk
I quite like @ProfRWinston bill calling for drugs labels to carry a mention that they were tested on animals. Public need realism.
Good to see more coverage of the internship for sale at Imperial College RT @timeshighered ow.ly/l2Th4
The new Health Research Authority publication on ethical research is *spectacularly* robust on #alltrials bit.ly/10nDQbJ GOOD!
Anybody watching / tweeting scitech committee on #alltrials? bit.ly/1817buR Anyone said anything career-torpedoingly anti-patient?
I hope all at #NICECONF2013 have signed alltrials.net Withholding results distorts evidence, and so harms patients #alltrials
NICE conference today, many good & "okay" ppl, with an active hashtag and screens showing tweets. Pls rewrite or RT my next tweet during day
I love it when ppl enthuse about #opendata and medicine but I worry they've never seen the horror of raw GPRD files #shakespearereview
Brown says patients who have taken part in trials are shocked when they realise findings may not be available to researchers #AllTrials
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Tracey Brown is speaking at Parlmnt Sci Tech Committee hearing on clinical trials. Watch it from 9.15 here bit.ly/10p8b9N #AllTrials
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Maybe mainstream media wldnt be in trouble if journalists didnt write identical pointless articles over & over again bbc.in/YIInVO
some kind of magic spell presumably
srsly, this is a wet country. we need conservative calf length boots for men and a way to stop them being cocklike and attention seeking.
Ps this is not a sexy time thing.
Less comfortable. Srsly, we need a movement for practical men's calve length boots. @MsJinnifer: @bengoldacre wots wrong wiv wellies?
I wore some size 9 ladies leather boots out earlier. You look like a fashioncock but GRACIOUS they're practical in the rain. Men need these.
trying to watch the current series of dr who. it's just structureless melodrama, turned up to 11 every minute.
Half the 1.1 million police stop&searches last year were to look for drugs. Goodwill well spent? RT @DannyKushlick: bit.ly/17ZKuay
Our Sabbaticals have responded to the removal of the internship with a call to open the opportunity to all pupils. bit.ly/14klgBk
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Libor, MPs expenses, #badpharma hiding trials, now oil companies rigging prices, riots seem rational & congruent reut.rs/13vthEJ
Hope all at #NICECONF2013 have signed #alltrials alltrials.net Read the evidence bit.ly/XBIFwp pls RT