How about a Canadian Pope?

2005-04-06 Thread michael sylvester
Seems like a good compromise. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Dlorida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On the efficacy of prayer: red flags in the morning

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen Black
(And in the evening too). Alerted by an astute and watchful colleague, I bring to your attention recent essays on the disturbing implications of the infamous prayer improves in vitro fertilization rate study published in the _Journal of Reproductive Medicine_ in 2001, which we've discussed

RE: On the efficacy of prayer: red flags in the morning

2005-04-06 Thread Paul Smith
Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Given some hints in Leibovici's background, my guess is that this is a deliberate hoax (note its presence in the special Christmas issue of BMJ) intended to provoke discussion. Yet I don't think he falsified data. So how he did he do it? Run

RE: On the efficacy of prayer: red flags in the morning

2005-04-06 Thread Rick Froman
If a deliberate hoax was allowed to remain unrevealed in a professional journal to stimulate debate for four years, we have bigger problems in scientific publication than just peer review. The most obvious explanation for any single unreplicated finding is spurious results. It is not unheard of

Re: On the efficacy of prayer: red flags in the morning

2005-04-06 Thread Marie Helweg-Larsen
Lenore I don't think they say anything about that being significant. They are saying that there were no difference in mortality rates but there were differences in duration of fever and length of hospital stay. At least that's how I read it - two sig. results, one non-sig result. So maybe the

Re: Efficient teaching methods

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Hake
In a TIPS post of 8 Mar 2005 00:17:50+0100, titled Efficient teaching methods, Philippe Gervaix (2005) wrote [bracketed by lines G. . . .: G A recent report from Canada Which pedagogies are efficient? by Gauthier C., Mellouki M. al. is