 |
 |
Morning all Some of you will know Iain Chalmers, who has done a huge amount to develop ways of improving the evidence base for medicine (among other things, he set up the "Cochrane collaboration" which systematically reviews clinical trials). I thought you might be interested in another of the projects he is involved in, this time in Uganda. It is using a randomised control trial to assess whether a method of teaching schoolchildren how to evaluate health claims works. A short introduction is here: http://www.vox.com/2016/10/6/13079754/teaching-critical-thinking-schools-health-claims Cheers Dom Wellcome exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. We're a global charitable foundation, both politically and financially independent. We support scientists and researchers, take on big problems, fuel imaginations and spark debate. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK) This message has been scanned for viruses by Websense Hosted Email Security - www.websense.com ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send reqests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************