Two papers featured in the current issue of the prestigious American Journal of Epidemiology provide useful examples of how, simply because a study has been carried out, its findings can get held up as if they were meaningful, and the many considerations that should make us skeptical get short shrift.
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One suspects that these two papers were placed at the front of the current issue of the journal because they hold out the prospect that a common behavior, coffee drinking, might have some protective efficacy against two serious illnesses.
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According to papers filed with the Blue Ribbon Commission, the current research involves faster and simpler processes for separating uranium and plutonium from other fission products in spent fuel and from minor elements like americium and curium.
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The 58-year-old England and West Ham great likened the current regulatory system to being "a bit like marking your own exam papers at school".
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West Yorkshire Police's chief constable, who found himself at the eye of the storm following the Hillsborough papers revelations, has attracted public criticism and opposition from within his current force.
Following this post he was Head of General Broadcasting Policy 1997-99, principal DCMS author of the green papers on the regulation of broadcasting which paved the way for the current regulatory reforms.
Under its current powers, Ofqual can ultimately take away an exam board's right to set papers.
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