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Discovery Seminar - The History of Cancer - Taliaferro-Smith - Fall 2024

This guide is for students in The History of Cancer Discovery Seminar at Oxford College.

Infographic showing 12 elements of faulty scientific claims: Sensationalized headlines, Misinterpreted results, Conflicts of interest, Correlation & causation, Unsupported conclusions, Problems with sample size, Unrepresentative samples used, No control group used, No blind testing used, Selective reporting of data, Unreplicable results, Non-peer reviewed material. Shared under Creative Commons by Compound Interest 2015