R. Barker Bausell
Auteur van Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Over de Auteur
Dr. R. Barker Bausell was the first educational researcher to demonstrate the learning superiority of both tutoring and small group instruction when the curriculum, teacher differences, instructional time, and student differences were rigorously controlled. He served as a biostatistician, a toon meer research methodologist, and the director of research in two departments within the University of Maryland over a thirty-five-year career and was the founding editor/editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Evaluation and the Health Profession for thirty-three of those years. He has authored twelve other books, including Conducting Meaningful Experiments: 40 Steps to Becoming a Scientist, Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change, and Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine. toon minder
Werken van R. Barker Bausell
Power Analysis for Experimental Research: A Practical Guide for the Biological, Medical and Social Sciences (2002) 7 exemplaren
The design and conduct of meaningful experiments involving human participants : 25 scientific principles (2014) 7 exemplaren
Creating a useful science of education : society's most important and challenging task (2017) 2 exemplaren
The science of the obvious education's repetitive search for what's already known (2017) 2 exemplaren
Evaluation & The Health Professions 1 exemplaar
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Actually, although the focus here is on CAM, I think the usefulness of this book is much broader than that: it's a good, thorough, detailed look at what it takes to determine with any reasonable degree of confidence whether something has a real, non-placebo-based medical effect or not. And that's not nearly as easy as it looks. There are a whole host of factors that can make it seem, or even make it seem obvious that something is working when it's not. And not all scientific studies are created equal when it comes to controlling for those factors. Bausell explains the hows and whys of all this clearly and in depth, and applies it towards an evaluation of various CAM fields.
There are a few things here I'm inclined to quibble with, notably his disturbingly off-hand dismissal of non-English-language studies and his suggestion that people with chronic problems might as well go out and get some scientifically unsupported CAM-based treatments, anyway, for the power of the placebo effect. I also think he does best when he concentrates on specific treatments, such as acupuncture, as CAM is almost too broad a subject to take on all at once. Still, overall it's a very worthwhile read, and provides some excellent lessons about how science works in medicine, how good science and sloppy science differ, and why that difference is so important.… (meer)