Jürgen Windeler is top drug investigator " (1) , SPIEGEL ONLINE reported on 2 June 2010. Is this news, the renowned IQWiG will in future not only led by a competent biostatistician but also by the followers of a fanatical ideological grouping. Prof. Jürgen Windeler is a member (2) the dubious skeptics organization Society for the Scientific Investigation of Para Sciences (GWUP) e. V. (3) , which is contrary to its misleading themselves, constitute a professional body and nanosciences in fighting various enemies (including complementary medicine) a systematic against the principles of good scientific practice but also of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is contrary.
(is GWUP member Krista Federspiel co-editor) In a critical rejoinder to the countless mistakes of the book The Other Medicine written Gunver Dr. P. Kienle and Dr. Helmut Kiene the Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology e. V. 2005 German Medical Journal ( PDF full version ):
"Neutral Treatment Evaluation, which is based not primarily on their own bias, but various evidence prepared professionally, systematically and critically, is unquestionably desirable. This is a goal of evidence-based medicine (EBM). Criteria for EBM are transparent and systematic in literature search, literature selection, measurement and presentation of evidence. Also for the knowledge of patient empowerment objective and transparent treatment information are useful and politically desirable.
Apart from the fact that many physicians question the universal suitability of the methods of EBM and critical turns out that not everything EBM is, what is dubbed as such . The mere label does not guarantee the methodology nor the quality necessary for this. The inflationary use of the great popularity advanced evidence-concept also carries risks; sometimes seems the nominal advertising of EBM to be the replacement for the corresponding need for scientific work "
Pseudo-EBM by Jürgen Windeler
on. There GWUP homepage has been around for many years the strange article "successes of homeopathy - a placebo effect" , which offers a taste of what now threatens the work of the Institute, if it focus on the assessment of complementary medical therapies. The article contains a number of seemingly incredible technical and methodological shortcomings that any reputable scientist would drift to shame in the face:
first Lack of timeliness, missing date:
EBM is based on the respective date of clinical medicine based on clinical studies and medical publications confirm or refute a fact - also known as external evidence. Incredible: The article by Jürgen Windeler and Rainer Wolf contains no date so that it can not time be assigned. GWUP.WATCH know that the article is from the nineties. This takes into account the work not the current state of research and is hopelessly out of date. Jürgen Windeler seems to have no problem to ...
second Inferior Source:
Serious scientific discourses are usually based on work published in scientific journals and quality assured, ideally through a peer review was. This will ensure that any published qualitative work Minimum standards and conditions. The until now published on the homepage GWUP article by Jürgen Windeler and Rainer Wolf was published, however non-specialist in a non-scientific media: the REGIOMONTANUSBOTEN , an institution of the Nürnberger Astronomische Arbeitsgemeinschaft eV No serious scientists would come up with the idea veröffentlcihen to a paper on a scientific topic in the medical association Journal Nuremberg amateur astronomers. Jürgen Windeler seems to have no problem to ...
third Not related to current scientific work:
Strange: The article by Jürgen Windeler and Rainer Wolf is presented to the public in 2010. However, it contains no reference to current scientific work. The current status of clinical medicine based on clinical studies and medical publications (an indicator of evidence based medicine) seems to Windeler and Wolf to play a role when it comes to one of them apparently went to fanatically opposed medical research topic. - Quite different PD Dr. Klaus Linde of Center for naturopathic research the TU Munich and the German Cochrane Centre and Prof. Dr. med Claudia M. Witt of Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité . In its March 2008 published course book explain homeopathy it objectively, professionally well-founded and currently almost (!) The state of research on homeopathy. The two medical researchers write:
"Currently, about 300 are controlled studies on the efficacy of homeopathy published, although less than a third of them in journals with a referee system (Luedtke 2005). From the third, only the smaller proportion in conventional journals published, the greater appeared in journals that specialize in science and research in complementary medicine. In addition, many studies are only as abstracts in conference reports of complementary medicine research conferences before (Luedtke 2005). Placebo-controlled clinical studies Homöoapthie were conducted only for a selected range of diagnoses (eg, allergic rhinitis, migraine). The recent systematic reviews that summarize the results of the placebo-controlled trials (Kleijnen 1997, Linde 1997, Shang 2005), show no consistent results, so the question about the superiority of homeopathic medicines for placebo clarified is not final. "
Source: K. Linde, CM Witt Course Homeopathy Book, 2008, p. 318
You can read this any different than the old, pseudo-scientific, semi-knowledge and based on prejudice pamphlet by Jürgen Windeler and Rainer Wolf. Jürgen Windeler seems to have no problem to ...
4th GWUP, EsoWatch.com and Internet crime
an appropriate time in detail to bleuchtendes topic is also the question of the extent to which representatives of the leading skeptics Association GWUP eV in the machinations of the criminal web portal EsoWatch.com involved. For example, Ulrich Berger associate judge in GWUP Board and linked in his blog CRITICAL THINKING simultaneously on the project EsoWatch.com belonging EsoBlog. The editors of EsoBlog and EsoWatch Wiki are responsible for a series of sometimes serious Internet crimes . See: donkey watch over Klaus Ramstöck and Anja Ramstöck . Jürgen Windeler seems to have no problem with the environment ...
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response to this blog post:
H. The blog of Jürgen Windeler: the bright and dark sides of the new Institute's chief
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warning against so-called skeptics and their fanatical ideology:
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Skeptizismus.de - Information on GWUP, CSICOP and other "skeptics" organizations
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Edgar wonder: The Skeptics syndrome
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Nobel laureate Brian D. Josephson: Pathological Disbelief
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Wikipedia: FOSSA on GWUP
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Promed.Watch: Wikipedia: FOSSA via so-called skeptics (GWUP, Brights)
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About the Association GWUP eV:
ass Watch: wiki entry "GWUP"
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