June 19, 2012

Begging hopefully for less bias

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From:Holy Sacred Cow! Why Reactions to the Exercise and Depression Trial Go to the Heart of Scientific Controversy by Hilda Bastian at the Guest Blog

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Source:Begging hopefully for less bias by Hilda Bastian

Hilda Bastian is a science writer and cartoonist. She decided to illustrate one of her posts with this cartoon – that post was one of the four back-and-forth posts that she and Scicurious wrote on the topic of exercise, depression, clinical trials, press releases and more:

Exercise doesn t help depression? Let s take a real look at that study. by Scicurious at The Scicurious Brain Holy Sacred Cow! Why Reactions to the Exercise and Depression Trial Go to the Heart of Scientific Controversy by Hilda Bastian at the Guest Blog Exercise and Depression part the second: a critique of a critique by Scicurious at The Scicurious Brain The spawn of the critique of the critique exercise and depression, part eleventy. by Hilda Bastian at The Scicurious Brain

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