How to Pick a Good Surgeon in Three Questions
There’s been a lot of negative press around surgeons lately. Ranjana Srivistava described a very disturbing case of suspect (and what sounds like money-driven) decision making by a surgeon in a system...
View ArticleAustralian Healthcare Spending is Not in Crisis.
There’s no crisis in health care spending, despite what for-profit health insurers would have you believe. To prove there is they quote misleading figures, including nominal total healthcare spending...
View ArticleMy Conflicts of Interest
I am a medical doctor but not currently in clinical practice. I have previously been a neurosurgery registrar, including private assistant work at both Healthscope and Ramsay hospitals.My PhD position...
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The Smoking Gun that Russia Faked the Sputnik Vaccine trial published in the...
Over the last 48 hours I’ve been percolating about the massive (30,000+ patient) RCT that has underpinned the Sputnik trial and led to millions of doses being sold by the Russian Government’s RDIF.I...
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Data from Cadegiani et al contains unexplained patterns.
Author's note: I became aware at the very end of drafting the post below that the preprint has now been published as a paper. Unfortunately, the reference to the availability of the dataset and link to...
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Data from Niaee et al is not consistent with a genuine randomised controlled...
What is a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) and why do we do them?Imagine a local celebrity launches a new supplement called ABSORBPRO that helps with the absorption of vitamins from food, so that for...
View ArticleSilence in Science
Yesterday Liam Mannix from the SMH and the Age examined the track record of The Burnet Institute in modelling Covid cases and deaths around Australia. The biggest takeaway for me was not the...
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A published claim of data fabrication in a Molnupiravir trial is invalid.
Recently "Trial Site News" published a claim that a published trial of molnupiravir in NEJM "contains fabricated data".This is obviously a massive accusation. I believe that exposing fraud in research...
View ArticleSimulation study for homogeneity of Lancet Phase 3 results by Age Subgroup
# This code has been prepared to test the distribution of cases in the phase III Sputnik-V results in the Lancet# This answers the question "What is the chance of all age strata having an observed...
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Evidence of Fabricated Data in a Vitamin C trial by Paul E Marik et al in CHEST
Below is an email I have sent to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, the editor of CHEST Journal, and prof Paul E Marik. As always an allegation against a multi-author paper is not an allegation against...
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A Response to Matt Crawford
In response to my last blog post Matt Crawford has written a critique. I found it deeply unsettling and uncomfortable to read. It's a bit creepy and he seems to have searched the internet for 10+ year...
View ArticleWhy comments are no longer allowed on this blog.
A note about why comments have disappeared:Earlier this year I received legal threats via Australian lawyers citing "Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Voller; Nationwide News Pty Limited v Voller;...
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