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Globe-trotting, award-winning independent science writer in China | Words in @nature.com, @sciam.bsky.social, National Geographic and more | Writing a book on emerging diseases for @scribnerbooks.bsky.social | Ex: @ksjatmit.bsky.social, @nature.com
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NPR cites an NSF statement now “NSF spokesperson said that all review panels will be rescheduled. ‘This will allow the agency to make the best use of everyone's time and resources as we continue to develop guidance to ensure compliance with the recent executive orders.’”
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WaPo: "The National Science Foundation has halted for at least the rest of the week the work of review panels, in which outside experts rate the merit of proposals for scientific research."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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SK: many trials have tried to reproduce the (later found to be fraudulent) cardiac stem cells findings and failed.
In another example, a fraudulent trial led to change in guidelines, but was never reproduced. Papers never retracted.
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SK - @kaulcsmc.bsky.social : Many failures in studies on Vioxx or meta-analysis on Rosiglitazone, aspirin.
Quote by Bangalore&Messerli : "A meta-analysis is like a sausage; only God and the butcher know what goes in it, and neither would ever eat any."
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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