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“We need the public to become better BS detectors”: Sir Iain Chalmers
Author(s) -
Champkin Julian
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00751.x
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , psychology , medicine , history , social psychology
Sir Iain Chalmers, founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, has done more than anyone else to make sure medical treatments are based on evidence – not prejudice – and that medical research is aimed at producing treatments that patients actually want. Julian Champkin spoke to him.