/oss/taxonomy/term/4443/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition-general-science/finding-paper-pubmed-does-not-mean-paper-any-good <p>As more and more people “do their own research,” some end up consulting a website called<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"> </a><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/">PubMed</a>. An argument I have encountered is that if a scientific paper is listed on PubMed, it must mean this is an all-around good and trustworthy paper. Alas, if only it were so simple...</p> Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:07:35 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8758 at /oss /oss/article/general-science/science-changes-accumulation-evidence <p>I remember once giving a talk on vitamins and having someone come up to me after with a comment along the lines of “I was in your class years ago and you were talking about the benefits of vitamin E for the heart and now you are saying it is pretty well useless. How can we trust science when one day you say this the next day that?”</p> <p>Understandable comment. But we need to point out that science is an ongoing quest for knowledge and is based on coming to conclusions based on observations. As more and more observations accumulate, conclusions may change.</p> Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:46:02 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8204 at /oss