Blog
Analysis, findings, and commentary from the NCRI Health team.
May 14, 2026 · Long Covid
The PACE Trial and the Politics of ME/CFS Research
How a deeply flawed clinical trial reshaped treatment guidelines for millions of patients — and why it still hasn’t been retracted fifteen years later.
April 28, 2026 · Methods
How Social Media Shapes Medical Consensus
Applying influence-operation detection methods to the online discourse around contested diagnoses. What the network structure reveals about who controls the narrative.
April 9, 2026 · Long Covid
Long Covid: What the Data Actually Shows
A plain-language review of the strongest evidence on prevalence, mechanisms, and why official estimates keep shifting.
March 22, 2026 · Scientific Integrity
Retraction Networks and the Sociology of Scientific Fraud
Mapping the citation and co-authorship networks around high-profile retractions in medicine. Fraud rarely travels alone.
March 5, 2026 · Institutions
Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Guideline Development
Who writes the guidelines? A look at the financial ties between industry, academic medicine, and the bodies that set treatment standards.
February 18, 2026 · Methods
Citation Networks as a Tool for Detecting Institutional Bias
An introduction to how we use citation graph analysis to surface which research gets amplified, which gets ignored, and what that pattern reveals.