What is the cost of the reproducibility crisis and the waste in research? This question came up in a recent Tweet pointing out the possible falsification of images in a key study on Alzheimer's disease in 2006 that led to considerable subsequent research. As Alex Holcombe pointed out "Even without fraud, many avenues that biologists … Continue reading What is the global cost of avoidable waste in research?
Month: July 2022
The decline in COVID-19’s case fatality rate (to near ’flu)
Since the start of the pandemic we have seen a near 30-fold decline in the case-fatality rate from COVID-19. That decline is from vaccines, better treatments, and the change in variants. The graph below is from our article in TheConversation on Australia's COVID numbers and shows (a) most COVID cases/deaths (>90%) have been in 2022 … Continue reading The decline in COVID-19’s case fatality rate (to near ’flu)
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