Learn how instrumental variables (IV) can improve causal inference in Felix Elwert's seminar, Instrumental Variables. Watch the 1st hour on YouTube now, & join the full course Apr. 10-12. Explore IV methods, from the Wald estimator to advanced diagnostics. youtu.be/IQ7PyDbKG-8

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Its amazing in veterinary medicine that everyone is talking about AI ,and the major journal for the profession cant spot the multiple errors in this manuscript segment.

Our paper is open access and has been published by the Journal of Public Health. With thanks to our colleagues from the Usher Institute, UNCOVER | Applied Evidence Synthesis, University of Edinburgh usher.ed.ac.uk/uncover who led the work with help from x.com/UKHSA

Triangulation of evidence in medical research explained, in work led by Sirena Gutierrez and Maria Glymour link.springer.com/article/10.100… Will do a thread when I get the time

Why is it so hard to show that people can be better decision-makers than statistical models? Some ways that common intuitions about the superiority of human judgment contradict statistical reality, and a few that don't. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/dum…

Coming soon to Sensible Medicine a 9+ part video series on critical appraisal called How Not To Get Fooled by the Medical Literature. Taught by Adam Cifu John Mandrola, MD and me. We think it will be the single best resource to improve your EBM skills

Ordinary minds move in lines, average minds within space — but the greatest minds escape dimension altogether.

Those who will benefit the most from AI will be those able to formulate the best questions. But will AI become adept enough to answer indirect questions?

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On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching - Carlin - 2025 - Statistics in Medicine - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Are there any good references on the importance of the clinical research question for producing useful clinical research?

John Mandrola, MD Be a passionate advocate of the question, not the answer

🔔pub on poverty of diagnostic essentialism🔔 Essentialism served us well before AI but how about now? Do end point diagnoses exist? Answers👇 degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… Adam Rodman Derya Unutmaz, MD Andrew Sanchez The Phlegmfighter Brian Locke, MD MSCI Adam Cifu Andrew Parsons Medical Education Flamingo, MD, PhD

The Paradox of Sadness and Depression In America - David Foster Wallace youtu.be/0kbSP18DPiU?si… via YouTube The American Ethos: Gratify yourself

ShadowBox Training for Making Better Decisions | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/seeing… “What if veterinary CE could teach how experts think, not just what they know?”

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NonsparseOncologist Rafael Olivé Leite Hakan Önder Roger Borràs Two of the main ways that observational treatment comparisons hurt public health are (1) optimistic point estimates that disturb equipoise/patients accepting randomization and (2) false confidence - confidence limits are computed assuming point estimates are unbiased. #EpiSky