Stats >> How to Read a Medical Journal Article (November 16, 1997)

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." Donald Foster, as quoted in A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery. William S. Niederkorn. The New York Times, June 20, 2002.

I've moved description of my book project to a different page:

The remainder of the material on this page will stay more or less intact. Earlier drafts of the book included the following materials

I have also created a combination of these pages that puts everything in one large file. I also have references and web links for some of these sections and some miscellaneous resources.

Some other closely related topics include:

You may also find of interest a draft copy of a speech I made to Bluejacket Toastmasters in May 2000 titled "What's Wrong with Medical Research?" This talk is based on an overview of fifty years of research about schizophrenia published in the British Medical Journal. There is also a handout which I used during this talk.

I am also working on a talk, "The value of objective research," that uses autism as an example of why careful research is needed. Even experts can be swayed by subjective information and only objective comparisons can prevent this.

There are some earlier versions of this presentation. I show them here because some people have used the older versions for a while and might want to continue doing so. I would, however, encourage you to consider the newer version described above. I never got some of the sections of the earlier versions as complete as I would have liked, and the organization is better with the newer versions.

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