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Study of homeopathic treatments as replacement for antibiotics “by the Bavarian State Parliament fails.” faz.net/aktuell/wissen…

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“It never dawned on me that I was ever going to be considered important”, said American biochemist Florence Seibert as she reflected on her life. Seibert was responsible for developing one of the most important medicines in controlling tuberculosis infections today.

Systematic Reviews in Health Research: Meta-analysis in context (3rd edition) by Matthias Egger Julian Higgins now available in Japanese amazon.co.jp/dp/4469269972

Apply, apply, apply. ukrn.org/2024/12/12/the…

Exciting news! The Japanese edition of Systematic Reviews in Health Research, which we had the honor of translating, is now available! thanks to Professors Matthias Egger, Julian Higgins, george davey smith for this groundbreaking work! #SystematicReviews #HealthResearch #MetaAnalysis

Epidemiologist Placide Mbala , who led research into the #Mpox outbreak that has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is one of the remarkable individuals chosen for this year’s Nature’s 10. nature.com/articles/d4158… Swiss TPH Matthias Egger Medicus Mundi

Wonderful news to end the year with: the agreement between the European Union and Switzerland, which includes Switzerland's association with Horizon Europe, has been signed! I look forward to welcoming our colleagues from Switzerland back into the ERC!

As the volume of published articles outpaces the number of practicing scientists, academics are increasingly overwhelmed. Where does this growth leave researchers? A new study published in Quantitative Science Studies assesses the strain on scientific publishing. #OpenAccess direct.mit.edu/qss/article/do…

Can’t argue with Tim Harford 😂 “Here’s the problem with forecasts: some of them are right, and some of them are wrong, and by the time we find out which is which, it’s too late.” Great piece - and why #forecasts don’t help #PandemicPreparedness BEready Cohort Matthias Egger

Another ivermectin-COVID-19 retraction, this one of a paper by sabine hazan md Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® et al. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… It's the 12th for the drug, among the 467 retractions of COVID-19 papers on our list. retractionwatch.com/retracted-coro…

It's still true that no philosopher has had a bigger impact on science than Popper, who argued that we should make risky and bold predictions to test our ideas. Do the killer experiment, he would say; the one that has a chance to kill your hypothesis.

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research nature.com/articles/d4158… World Conf Research Integrity @NRIN_Integrity COPE Scholarly Kitchen LSE Impact Blog ZonMw NWO Nieuws Peer Review Congress #PRC10 Open Science NL (@opensciencenl.bsky.social) Center for Open Science

Federal Council confirmed today: the plans for federal budget cuts of ~500M/year will proceed. These cuts threaten the ETH, Swiss National Science Foundation (affecting PhD candidates, postdocs, Ambizione), and the teaching quality & student mobility, among others.

Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order nytimes.com/2025/02/06/hea…

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. nytimes.com/2025/02/10/cli…

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some are considering changing jobs or leaving the country. Others say them might abandon research altogether.