by Andrew Maynard | Sep 15, 2014 | Communication, Science Communication
In an analysis of recent news releases from the top ten US universities, only 59% of them provided links to the peer review paper they were written about. Over 30% did not cite the paper. And less than 10% of the releases used DOI links to the peer reviewed paper....
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 12, 2014 | Communication, Public Health, Vaccines
Anyone following the Twitter #vaccinesNOVA hashtag on the evening of Wednesday September 10 would have seen their stream seemingly overwhelmed by the #CDCWhistleblower hashtag. Wednesday was when NOVA’s documentary Vaccines – Calling The Shots aired, and...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 11, 2014 | Communication, Science Communication
This Friday my class of second year Environmental Health Science Master of Public Health students are going to get my admittedly quirky annual lecture on crating poster presentations. Quirky, because I’m a little obsessive about the importance of story telling...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 10, 2014 | Public Health, Vaccines
Measles is one of the leading causes of death amongst children worldwide. In 2012, an estimated 122,000 people died of the disease according to the World Health Organization – equivalent to 14 deaths every hour. Yet talk to parents about this highly infectious...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 9, 2014 | Ebola, Health
Update Oct 2: With concern over ebola in the US growing, I’m seeing a number of websites advocating the use of colloidal or nano silver as an effective preventative or cure. Just to be clear – there is no research that suggests ingesting colloidal silver...
