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With the recent pause in administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to concerns about blood clotting, there’s a renewed interest in vaccine hesitancy. This refers to the psychological barriers that prevent someone from receiving a vaccine. Is the public going to be more reluctant to get COVID vaccines because of emergent safety concerns, however […]
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Another month, another set of retractions! Thankfully, most researchers out there had a better month than Caesar. We’re trying a new format for this month. We’ll be talking through the data here on PubTrawlr’s blog page, and then linking to the full dataset. Over this past month, we’ve seen 31 retractions.
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A recent article is making rounds in the Twitter circles I follow: Brownson et al’s Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity. Because so much of PubTrawlr’s work is about both implementation science AND equity, let’s deconstruct what this article is saying.
Read more →Our team has been preparing for the TecBridge Business Plan Competition, which helps develop each stage PA-based companies. We go live with our presentation in about 40 minutes! We’ll have more updates on this in the coming days, but in the meanwhile, we wanted to share a few of our slides with you. And, our […]
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The thunder from down under rumbled this week at 2021 Evidence and Implementation Summit hosted by CEI and Monash University. In a different world and time, we would have been there in person. Alas. We presented on using NLP methods to synthesize scientific evidence (so basically the methodological rationale for PubTrawlr), but that’s another post. Today, we’re going […]
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We want to make science accessible. Part of that is helping people understand how science is generated and what findings mean. Come help us spread knowledge far and wide. We are seeking writers to generate blogs and educational infographics for PubTrawlr. We pay per blog with incentives for the number of hits. Click on this […]
Read more →Let’s start at the beginning. Health outcomes can vary for no other reason than where people are born. And this isn’t even a “developed” vs. “developing” country distinction. In the US, zip codes can be a huge predictor of health outcomes. This has been known for a long time and a major driven force in […]
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