… from Steve First up an apology of sorts for this post being at best, only peripherally related to research and at worst, self-indulgent. Just a few months ago I moved from Australia to take up a post-doc position for a couple of years in The Netherlands. My motivations for doing so were neither completely [...]

…from Steve Being my first Cochrane meeting, I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but overall it was pretty good and as big a collection of Alpha-nerds as I have ever seen! As you might expect it was pretty heavy on the methodological stuff but generally it was high quality. I’d be lying if I [...]

…from Nick Here is the second part of our short biography of Archie Cochrane. Personally, I think he would have been a swell guy to share an icecream with. Archie Cochrane is best known for his influential book, Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services published in 1972. The principles he set out in it were [...]

Today we reached 10000 visits! Thank you very much for having icecreams every week! Have a great weekend! Leo, Nick, Steve, Lu, Tasha, Chris and Zoe