October 08, 2011
Incompatible assumptions common in biomedical research
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Strong, incompatible views are common in biomedicine but are largely invisible to biomedical experts themselves, making artificial barriers to effective modeling of complex biological phenomena. Researchers at the University of Chicago explored the diversity in views among scientists researching the process of cancer metastasis and found ubiquitous disagreement around assumptions in any model of the progression of cancer cells from their original location to other parts of the body. The researchers suggest that making often invisible assumptions explicit could significantly improve the modeling of biomedical processes. Read more…
(NaturalNews) If you have ever seen a commercial for a pharmaceutical drug, you are probably familiar with the long list of perilous side effects that are rattled off in the last five seconds of the advertisement, just after viewers are told how Drug “X” is going to save their lives, improve their memories or give them unlimited energy. What was that? Did he just say that pill might cause bleeding out of my eyes?
