Three Tips for Checking Whether A Medical Study is Legit or Bulls-it
Tools to help you learn to quickly sort out whether a paper is solid or shaky.
This article appears in full along with an accompanying video on Rosemary Frei’s website.
After obtaining an MSc in molecular biology from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Rosemary Frei became a freelance writer. For the next 22 years she was a medical writer and journalist. She pivoted again in early 2016 to full-time, independent activism and investigative journalism. Her website is RosemaryFrei.ca.
You’ve just watched a video of a high-profile, Covid-sceptic speaker saying that shedding of the spike protein from vaccinated people endangers those they come in close contact with. You want to find out more, so you look at one or two of the links under the video that provide source material for what the speaker said. (Great those links are there; most videos don’t have them.)
Or a friend who is a believer in the official narrative about Covid has sent you a news item with a scary headline about the Indian ‘triple-mutation new variant.’ You’re pretty sure the article is very misleading, so you want to check out the study it’s based on.
How can you find source material and -- if and when you find it – try to quickly figure out whether it’s legit?
Because there’s a huge, hot complicated mess of claims and counter-claims out there. And unfortunately there’s misleading information coming from ‘experts’ on both sides of the Covid divide.
And this isn’t unique to Covid. As Scott Adams -- who created the Dilbert cartoon strip and now is a pundit -- points out in page 14 of his book Loserthink:
“One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved.”
So I’ve put together three tips to help you quickly discern whether a medical paper is meaningful or meaningless. I’ve distilled the tips from my decades of reading, writing and editing scientific and medical papers.
Tip One: Is key information left out or hidden?
Tip Two: If the source material is a study about the effect of an intervention, does the study measure serious illness or death in humans, or is it on animals or theoretical, test-tube models?
Tip Three: Does the study contain the information that the article or video referring to it says it contains?
Continue reading the full article here.
We need to call the OST on their baloney predictions. They fail massively everytime.
Three tips for checking whether comments are legit. Follows the same practice. Do your homework. Read all the comments and search.
Great article. Follow the money is correct. Follow the money to the 215 residential school indigenous children murdered. Follow the money to cover up and gagging of Dr. Hoffe of Lytton BC and vaccine injuries of our Indigenous first Nations including one death. Follow the money of the PCR test and the vaccine. Follow the money of the elites protected including those in power. Follow the money of crooked unions.
Follow the money trail of those calling the shots on lockdowns and closures and those calling for vaccine passports. It all there for the taking. Blacklock Reporter Rebel News and other Independent news outlets. They tend to expose the truths. The many blogs and comments provide a money trail. Crooked judges and crowns and lawyers. Crooked politicians and the elites who support them and the lobbyists.
Do not accept the fake calls for investigation from those who use tragedies to further their political careers but ignore the steps that lead to those tragedies. The citizens are far smarter.
Oh another threat. Really. Those veiled threats are amazing. Must go and comb my blue hair. Do you prefer blue hair or green?