Matt, Chris, and Don do their second ever live podcast, exploring a study on the effects of sleep on mortality, the gang discusses a proposal to change the definition of statistical significance, and Chris goes rogue and has three amazing and amusing articles.
Matt, Chris, and Don examine a trial using synbiotics to prevent neonatal sepsis, the gang discusses scientific productivity over time, and Don gives us just a study title for his amazing and amusing.
Matt, Chris, and Don discuss a new treatment for lung cancer (immunotherapy), the gang discusses a large clinical trial that controversially changed its endpoint, and Chris dives into the world of linguistics (again).
Matt, Chris, and Don look at a drug company antidepressant trial in adolescents that was re-analyzed by different authors who came to different conclusions, the gang discusses the pre-registration movement in psychology, and Matt finds out what happens to all those unreported clinical trials.
Matt, Chris, and Don finally take on one of their own studies and see how it holds up, the gang discusses what to do when your study has flaws, and Chris tells us what happens if you don’t get funding as a junior faculty member.
Matt, Chris, and Don tackle a study on the effectiveness of opioids vs non-opioids for chronic pain, the gang discusses new NIH rules on how a clinical trial is defined, and Matt reads us some academic love poems.
Matt, Chris, and Don discuss a study on the HPV vaccine and its impact on prevalence of HPV, the gang discusses what the goal of peer review is, and Matt gets on twitter to find out the latest on significance.
Matt, Chris, and Don puzzle out whether a diet low in gluten has an effect on coronary artery disease, the gang discusses whether it is ok to have prior beliefs when critiquing a study, and Don explains how sandwiches are killing the planet.
The traditional model presumes that a fixed amount of time will be devoted to any given subject, regardless of the pre-existing experience, skills, and talents of the students, and this approach inevitably results in some students failing to truly master the fundamentals.
Matt, Chris, and Don look at the science behind a supplement aimed at improving memory, debate conflicts of interest in industry research, and Matt explains why Don is to blame for his hearing loss.
Matt, Chris, and Don debate a new meta-analysis on calcium and vitamin D supplements for prevention of fractures, Matt explains why he hates null hypothesis significance testing, and Don alerts us to the dangers of listening to heavy metal.
In this special bonus episode, we have our first guest, Dr. Kate Grabowski, the author of the HIV incidence in Uganda study in episode 14. She talks with Matt about a few issues we got wrong and the wider impact of her work on HIV.
