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David Weinberg
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David Weinberg is an academic physician and Professor of Ophthalmology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has also been an occasional contributor at Science-Based Medicine.
Do extraordinary claims really require extraordinary evidence?
It is a common skeptical mantra that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - but is this true, or is it simply setting unlikely ideas up to fail?
The power of placebo-controls has little to do with the placebo-effect
Randomisation ensures treatment and control groups are as similar as possible when beginning a study - placebo controls ensure they are similar during a study
Eat the Sun: an ophthalmologist’s review of a documentary on sun-gazing
"Eat the Sun" puts forward the notion that humans can survive without food, as long as we stare at the sun - unsurprisingly, this is terrible advice
Science can be a candle in the dark, as long as you’re not actively trying to avoid the light
When people become over-invested in their beliefs, they can develop intellectual photophobia: an active resistence to any evidence that might shed uncomfortable light
How a scientific paper gets published: demystifying peer review
From the outside, the peer review process can seem like a black box; from the inside, it can be a time-consuming, imperfect process... but an important one.
What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery
When new medical breakthroughs occur, pseudoscientists are often quick to jump on the bandwagon in order to sell their quackery
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