Mike Shedlock of Global Economic Trend Analysis was the first to pick up several problems with the details of the report and his analysis is worth a read.

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The biggest-selling diabetes drug in the world dramatically increases the risk of heart attacks and death from heart problems, according to an analysis by a top cardiologist published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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At the very best, the first hints of these problems came from a re-analysis of data--an unreliable technique--two years after the drug had been on the market.

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Certainly, there are glitches with Dr Lisi's analysis and some of the truly fundamental problems that plague more conventional work remain.

ECONOMIST: A shape could describe the cosmos and all it contains

The analysis of such data poses problems beyond mere volume control.

ECONOMIST: Drowning in data

As many of the world problems resolve over the next year, the markets should return to more rational analysis and will reward idiosyncratic company risk when appropriate.

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The ideal for this sort of analysis and many other problems would be to have both types of information available in one system.

FORBES: A Vision for Unifying Access to Data and Documents

Empirical investigation as posited by Morphological Analysis and more generally by others is currently the most effective means of testing complex or wicked problems such as cyber security.

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The problems began back in April when people began taking notice of negative analysis from Edward A. Zabitsky, of Toronto-based ACI Research.

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