Health surveys and medical research are the lifeblood of SportsGeezer, which, in our dreams, makes a handsome living off other people’s PhD theses. So it is with some regret that we report on a new study demonstrating that the conclusions of nearly one-third of all medical studies turn out to be less than is advertised. The Chicago Sun-Times delivers this discouraging wake-up call, which is based a review of major
studies published in three influential medical journals between 1990
and 2003. The study about the studies, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that subsequent research
contradicted results of seven studies — 16 percent — and reported
weaker results for seven others, an additional 16 percent, for a rounded off total of one-third being not quite right. Now if we could just tell which third were fiction…. Read more.
Health, fitness and lifestyle tips for people over 50 who still like to play hard
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
That’s what makes science science. It is falsifyable. You do a study and expect others to try to replicate it. When they can’t, it shows your methods, procedures, and thesis were probably wrong. If they replicate it, you might be right. But you can always be proven wrong. And science progresses another step forward, if only by knowing what didn’t quite work.
Why doesn’t someone do a study on the accidental deaths do to mistakes in hospitals?