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New discoveries and studies with professor/expert commentary — 'профессура и экспертность' vertical
ResearchTrials often track cholesterol, tumor shrinkage or blood sugar instead of death, fractures or survival — the stand-in usually works, but history records the exceptions.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchRelative risk makes small dangers look enormous and big benefits look magical; converting to absolute numbers takes one minute and changes every conclusion.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchA cleared device reached the market by demonstrating similarity to a decades-old predicate; an approved drug faced clinical trials — knowing which word your product carries changes its evidentiary weight.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchMeta-analyses sit at the top of the evidence pyramid, but pooling inherits every flaw of the studies it combines — heterogeneity, publication bias and garbage in.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchMost nutrition and lifestyle news comes from cohort data that can only report associations — here is how to extract what such studies honestly show.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchIndustry funding skews research results in measurable, documented ways — and the disclosures at the bottom of a paper tell you which way to lean your skepticism.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchThousands of papers are retracted every year, yet retracted studies keep circulating in news feeds and policy debates — a two-minute database check settles which.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchObservational cohorts can follow half a million people for decades; randomized trials can isolate a single variable — knowing which design produced a headline tells you what it can honestly say.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchA p-value measures how surprising the data would be if nothing were going on — it says nothing about size, importance, or whether the finding is true.
Written by Tobias Lange
ResearchMany health headlines cite research that no journal has reviewed; a two-minute check of the paper's status tells you how much weight a finding can carry.
Written by Tobias Lange