The incredibly complex case of missing medical research

Editor’s Note: Since the publication of this article, Ben Goldacre (AllTrials) and Anna Powell-Smith of the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab at the University of Oxford built a tool (Trials Tracker), which shows the universities, government bodies, and...

The surveillance society we need: An interview with Prabhat Jha

Editor’s Note: The following interview with Prabhat Jha was organized by eLife, a supporter and donor to the AllTrials campaign. “Imagine if Zika had come to New York or to Toronto,” says Prabhat Jha from his office at the St. Michael’s Hospital Center for...

George Washington, Data Scientist

By Scott Harris George Washington was not a scientist, inventor or philosopher in the mold of Franklin or Jefferson; he was not a legal scholar as John Adams, or a grass-roots organizer like Samuel Adams; yet Washington was a man who valued reasoned thinking and the...