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Global trends in religiosity and atheism 1980 to 2020
Ronald Inglehart has recently published an article in Foreign Affairs called “Giving up on God: the global decline of religion” in which he uses data from the most recent wave of the World Health Surveys (WVS) to claim that between … Continue reading
Are the Lancet authorship criteria adequate?
In May, the Lancet published a peer-reviewed study claiming to analyse data from nearly 15,000 patients who had received the drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of Covid-19. The study concluded that patients who received the drug were dying at a higher … Continue reading
Religiosity and atheism in 2020
The World Values Survey (WVS) and the European Values Study (EVS) include questions on religious affiliation, religious beliefs and practices, as well as on the influence of religion on attitudes to government, politicians and science [1-4]. These questions played a … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, European Values Study, irreligion, religiosity, values map, Welzel, World Values Survey
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The climate crisis has not gone away
The return of the summer wildfires in California reminds us that the climate crisis has not gone away just because there is a pandemic. The USA has recently recorded the hottest ever measured temperature of 54.1 C (130 F) in … Continue reading
Trends in cultural values across 105 countries: 1980 to 2020
In a previous post, I examined variations in cultural values across 105 countries in year 2019 using data from all 7 waves of the World Values Survey (WVS)and all 5 waves of the European Values Survey (EVS) [1-4]. I developed … Continue reading
Climate change and the denial of reality
Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion have been raising awareness of the urgent need to stop talking and start acting on global warming. The evidence that global warming is real and that it is human-caused is now overwhelming, but the public … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, global warming, science denial, tobacco industry
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Universal health coverage
A WHO report monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was released yesterday. It reports the proportion of the population that can access essential health services, and the proportion that are pushed into poverty by healthcare expenses, for 183 countries. … Continue reading
Sex and gender in reporting health indicators
I am writing a chapter for a US publication, which has tables of statistics for males and females (which I refer to as “sex”). The editor contacted me to ask whether I should be calling this “gender”. This reminded me … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, gender inequality, global health statistics, sex
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One of the world’s most influential scientific minds…..
I have been included for the second time in the Thomson Reuters list of “Highly Cited Researchers”. Around 3,000 researchers, in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences, were selected for the recently released 2016 list based on the … Continue reading
An exclusive “interview”
Murray, the anonymous health statistician whose distinctive style of mischievous political graffiti adorns journals around the world from London to Seattle, doesn’t “do” interviews. The world’s most anonymous global health researcher has famously remained silent but for the statements he … Continue reading
