Welcome to TTextras


TTextras are open educational resources, such as games, podcasts and videos, that help people understand more about fair tests of treatments.
The most recently added resources are shown at the top of the list below. Or you can click topics in the tag cloud on the right to find relevant resources. Finally, you can use the Search function at the the upper right, but please be aware that this feature includes the rest of the site as well.
If you know of any such resources that you think we should add, please do let us know so we can take a look at them. Scroll down to browse our most recent acquisitions.

Risky business

This cartoon byRoxanne Palmer on the International Business Times website nicely illustrates how relative measures of efficacy can be used to misrepresent how much benefit a treatment actually gives.
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This video is a clip of a BBC documentary in which Iain Chalmers and Dan Cruikshank recreate James Lind’s celebrated experiment to test treatments for scurvy.

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In this video Gwen Olsen, a former pharmaceutical sales representative, talks about manipulating doctors to sell more drugs.

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This video provides an example of the application of the scientific method to the claims of quackery! Featuring Emily Rosa, the youngest person ever to publish in the prestigious JAMA — Journal of the American Medical Association. Okumaya devam edin »

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“FDA approves new drug the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness.”

This humorous video by the Onion illustrates some of the tactics used to push unnecessary treatments or “sell” sickness.  The video uses a fictitous treatment called “Despondex” for this purpose, Okumaya devam edin »

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“A New Epidemic” is a humourous video parody of the tactics used to “sell” disease by some organisations.  It uses a fictitious disease called Motivational Deficiency Disorder to make its point.
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In this video tutorial, Amanda Burls explores the ways in which evidence about the effectiveness of genetic testing can be misrepresented in advertising
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Statistically funny is a blog by Hilda Bastian containing her own cartoons illustrating important concepts in research and evidence-based health care.

“The comedic possibilities of clinical epidemiology are known to be limitless.”

You can follow the cartoons on twitter or sign up for email alerts
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CASP UK helps people to find and interpret the best available evidence from health research.

It is part of an international network that shares a commitment to self-directed learning and promoting better understanding of science.

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The UK National Institute for Health Research HTA (Health Technology Assessment) programme assesses the effectiveness and value for money of new health technologies.

On their website you can browse HTA research projects, find out about funding and get involved in the HTA programme.
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