191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines

About this episode

James and Dan discuss the Medical Evidence Project aimed at identifying questionable medical evidence in treatment guidelines.

James and Dan discuss James' newly funded 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines. Links James' blog post from last year The carthorse child blog post The blog post announcing the project A write up in Nature about the project Other links Dan on Bluesky James on Bluesky Everything Hertz on Bluesky Citation Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, June 4). 191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/537BN Support Everything Hertz

People in this episode

Hosts: James, Dan

Guest: James Heathers

Topics covered

• medical evidence
• treatment guidelines
• healthcare

Keywords

• medical research
• evidence-based medicine
• health policy

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