Understanding Medical Research
Your Facebook Friend is Wrong

>I fear, after your assessment, I may be one of those average Reddit people

That's why I always look for comments like the OP above that criticize the study or point out some issues with them. If there's so many BS in my own field I can't take everything at face value from other fields like biology or psychology or something. If you want to understand medical research this online course is great and it's free

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research

Sign them up for understanding medical research: your Facebook friend is wrong. I realise that will never work but I can dream.

Coursera offers "Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong " https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research

There is a fantastic (and free!) course on Coursera teaching how a lay person can make sense of medical research. It can help you asses the quality of the articles he sends you. It can also help you be critical about interpretations of that evidence.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research

I took this coarse for free so I could do exactly that. My own understanding of actual, validated, peer reviewed studies and data. Your facebook friend is wrong: understanding medical research. Offered online by Yale university.

I HIGHLY recommend taking it if you don't have a medical background already. It is a good crash coarse on what is going on currently with the pandemic and much of the misinformation percolating around us. Overall how to discern good studies from bad studies and spot why.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research

I was gonna do this one with my friend who likes to repeat covid blurbs from mainstream news sites (as opposed to science journals) as if they were irrefutable fact but we never got around to it: https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research

> Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research?courseSlug=medical-research a link to the course, if anyone is so inclined. New session starts.... today.

Link to the Coursera page

Link to Dr. Wilson's Yale page

>About this Course

>How can you tell if the bold headlines seen on social media are truly touting the next big thing or if the article isn't worth the paper it's printed on?

>Understanding Medical Studies, will provide you with the tools and skills you need to critically interpret medical studies, and determine for yourself the difference between good and bad science.

>The course covers study-design, research methods, and statistical interpretation. It also delves into the dark side of medical research by covering fraud, biases, and common misinterpretations of data. Each lesson will highlight case-studies from real-world journal articles.

>By the end of this course, you'll have the tools you need to determine the trustworthiness of the scientific information you're reading and, of course, whether or not your Facebook friend is wrong.