SchaferAutismReport: Special Edition: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

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SPECIAL EDITIONLies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science By H. Freedman, The Atlantic magazine. http://xrl.in/6k06 Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science. Editor's note: Research performed over the last decade sponsored by public health agencies

that would appear to absolve vaccines from any cause of autism is also riddled with conflicts of interest, predetermined bias and pseudo-science. This would explain why the public still has some doubts about vaccine safety despite assurances from public health agencies that the evidence has settled the matter. - LS. By H. Freedman, the Atlantic.

Image credit: Robyn Twomey/Redux In 2001, rumors were circulating in Greek hospitals that surgery residents, eager to rack up scalpel time, were falsely diagnosing hapless Albanian immigrants with appendicitis. At the University of Ioannina medical school’s teaching hospital, a newly minted doctor named Athina Tatsioni

was discussing the rumors with colleagues when a professor who had overheard asked her if she’d like to try to prove whether they were true—he seemed to be almost daring her. She accepted the challenge and, with the professor’s and other colleagues’ help, eventually produced a formal study showing that, for whatever reason, the appendices removed from patients with Albanian names in six Greek hospitals were more than three times as likely to be perfectly healthy as those removed from patients with Greek names. “It was hard to find a journal willing to publish it, but we did,†recalls Tatsioni. “I also discovered that I really liked research.†Good thing, because the study had actually been a sort of audition. The professor, it turned out, had been putting together a team of exceptionally brash and curious young clinicians and

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