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“Cut down on bacon or you’ll have a heart attack” Well, only if I eat 34 rashers everyday for the next 6 to 30 years.

Eg. This is what WE ALL need to do to be as close to sure of receiving the harms/benefits from: Harms: - processed meat - high sat fat diet - high simple carbs Benefits: - high fibre (from complex carbs) - exercise And we still can’t know if YOU will be harmed/benefit.

The thing “science/health influencer” accounts on here don’t know they don’t know; and that their followers need to know in order to make an informed choice as to whether they should keep paying the substack fee. 😂 😂 😂

This may be true. But the question they’ve not answered correctly is not right itself. It’s missing a key piece of information (or you have to make an assumption about it).

Maybe. But beware “Expertness”: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

Almost got it. Having the conditions & capital under which healthy lifestyle behaviours can become meaningful & routine has the potential to prevent/delay many diseases which most people would prefer to disease + medical treatment.

Opening sentence: “As educators, we spend countless hours role modeling….” 😂

🚨BREAKING 🚨 People who sleep more eat less than those who spend more of their time awake

Two things that today’s society has done to make parenting a billion times harder than it is without those things. I’ll start: 1. Giving kids smart phones from an increasingly earlier age 2. Having a tuck shops in schools #adultsareinfactidiots

What makes a systematic review ‘living’? 🤔 DPhil student Melanie Golob explores this in her latest blog, comparing Cochrane’s guidance to real-world practice. While Cochrane LSRs follow best practices, many others don’t. 🔍 Read more: bit.ly/3Fs7ARi #SystematicReview

As someone who’s been in the evidence-based medicine/health care field for 15 years, the first thing that comes into my mind when I see headlines like this is “What scientists? In what field?” How late are other fields to the EBM “internal police” party?

Teacher at daughter’s school tells class if you don’t get good sleep regularly then your risk of cancer increases. Daughter who doesn’t sleep well at moment asks me if it’s true. I ease her fears. True or not, leaves me pondering what to do about this.

The ‘delicate diagnosis’ that we write about below means that diagnoses can be subject to what is happening elsewhere in society. Politicians addressing this need to concentrate on system issues not individual ones….

"Real-world" generative AI:

The litmus test of RFK’s sincerity was/is the way he ensures robust & trustworthy evidence is generated (even if the underlying hypothesis is weak, as it is here). If this is anything to go by, it’s playing out exactly how many predicted it would. catalogofbias.org/biases/confirm…

I teach educators of evidence based medicine. The cross-over of EBM & evidence-based education is a core theme. EBM has a long history of medical reversal (see: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22180684/) I wonder the scale of this issue for (med) education?