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Bob Marks and Gary Smith offer a range of startling examples of how the pressure to publish drives a lack of rigor — and sometimes honesty — in analyzing and presenting experimental data. The result is a never ending parade of headlines in health and medicine that are unwarranted and often reversed or impossible to replicate.

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01:00 | Data mining and the origin of the term “Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies”02:00 | Fallacy #1: Multiplying targets03:00 | Drinking coffee and pancreatic cancer04:25 | The profusion of health studies and claims06:07 | Fallacy #2: Drawing the target after shooting07:22 | The pressure in academia to publish or perish07:38 | A story from J.P. Ryan’s ESP (Environmental Sample Processor) lab08:54 | Diederik Stapel and fabricated data09:15 | Spurious correlations in big data10:00 | John Ioannidis, the “decline effect”, and the status of flawed medical research11:20 | The health media’s headline clickbait

Resources

The AI Delusion by Gary Smith at Amazon.com“The Mind of a Con Man” at The New York Times on Diederik Stapel’s academic fraudJohn Ioannidis and the “decline effect” at Wikipedia

Bob Marks and Gary Smith offer a range of startling examples of how the pressure to publish drives a lack of rigor — and sometimes honesty — in analyzing and presenting experimental data. The result is a never ending parade of headlines in health and medicine that are unwarranted and often reversed or impossible to replicate. Shownotes 01:00 | Data Read More ›

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Pablo Picasso said “Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers.”  Picasso didn’t go far enough. The answers that computers give must themselves be questioned. This is especially true of AI. Questioning AI is the topic today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:27 | Introduction to Gary Smith 02:40 | The AI Delusion 04:50 | Stocks and Data 07:00 Read More ›

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Pablo Picasso said “Computers Are Useless. They Can Only Give You Answers.”  Picasso didn’t go far enough. The answers that computers give must themselves be questioned. This is especially true of AI. Questioning AI is the topic today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:27 | Introduction to Gary Smith 02:40 | The AI Delusion 04:50 | Stocks and Data 07:00…

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The human brain can both adapt and heal itself. Can this healing be accelerated without brain surgery? Using stimulation, of all places, to the tongue can result in incredible changes to brain functions. Can this technology help rewire the brain of those with disorders like Multiple Sclerosis and Cerebral Palsy? That’s the topic today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 00:50 Read More ›

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The human brain can both adapt and heal itself. Can this healing be accelerated without brain surgery? Using stimulation, of all places, to the tongue can result in incredible changes to brain functions. Can this technology help rewire the brain of those with disorders like Multiple Sclerosis and Cerebral Palsy? That’s the topic today on Mind Matters.

Show Notes

00:50 | Introduction01:30 | PoNS Portable Neuro-Modulation Stimulator03:15 | Choosing the Tongue06:00 | Gaining Balance with PoNS09:10 | Multiple Sclerosis and PoNS12:50 | PoNS and Severe Mental Disability15:00 | Testing the PoNS18:20 | Curing Netflix Addiction

Links & Resources

Helius Medical WebsiteExperimental Tongue Therapy Helps Restore Brain Function (YouTube)

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Will infotech and biotech erode human agency, subvert human desires, and render free-market economics obsolete?  At first glance, there looks to be a wide gap between the future of AI and the destruction of democracy. Some futurists claim to have jumped that chasm. In a cheery little column published by the Atlantic, Yuval Noah Harari posits AI will ultimately destroy Read More ›

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You get a paper cut and over time your body heals it. The brain can also both adapt and heal itself. How can we facilitate this healing in patients with brain challenges? We address that question today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:15 | Introduction 02:25 | Brain Healing and Repair 04:50 | Neuroplasticity 06:00 | Nature of Addiction 07:45 Read More ›

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