The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
- G. Watts
- Computer ScienceBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 24 November 2005
I s the threat of avian flu “the monster at our door” or, to use an alternative and zoologically mixed metaphor, a frightened chicken crying wolf? We need to know.
Mike Davis
The New Press, £12.99,…
In for the long haul
- G. Watts
- MedicineBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 15 February 2011
As the National Survey of Health and Development celebrates its 65th year, Geoff Watts examines the value of large cohort studies and the importance of large sample sizes.
Doctors and nurses
- G. Watts, P. Thompson, F. Pegley, A. Edwards, V. Bhaskaran, F. Gibberd
- Medicine, Political ScienceThe Lancet
- 25 August 1990
Why the exclusion of older people from clinical research must stop
- G. Watts
- MedicineBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 21 May 2012
Geoff Watts looks at the barriers to recruitment and age bias in clinical research leads to uncertainty about risks and benefits in new treatments for older people.
The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
- G. Watts
- ArtBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 19 May 2005
Let me start with a brief quote, not from Dick Taverne's book, but from an essay unpromisingly titled “Constructivism in the works of Gibson” by (allegedly) Stephen McElwaine of Harvard and John…
Let's pension off the “major breakthrough”
- G. Watts
- ArtBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 4 January 2007
This enterprise of choosing the top 15 milestones in medicine is not only daft but damaging, because it plays to the “breakthrough” view of science: a wholly misguided notion that seeks to portray science as a kind of intellectual trawler.
Beyond the impact factor
- G. Watts
- BusinessBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 13 February 2009
Details of how the new research excellence framework will assess UK research are expected later this year. Geoff Watts looks at the possibilities for fairer evaluation of applied medical research
UK Biobank opens its data vaults to researchers
- G. Watts
- MedicineBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 30 March 2012
After more than a decade of planning and preparation, UK Biobank is ready for its first customers. From accumulated capital now amounting to 20 terabytes of stored data it will be dispensing…
Google watches over flu
- G. Watts
- MedicineBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 31 December 2008
Google continues to refine its new infectious disease surveillance system during the current influenza season. But not everyone is yet convinced that it will add much to data already available, as…
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