Posts Tagged ‘Peer’

Plaintiffs’ Experts And Peer Review Don’t Mix

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Just the other daywe brought you news that the British medical journal Lancet issued a full retractionof an purported scientific article by a plaintiffs’ expert in autism litigation. The author, who was at the time also serving as a plaintiff-side expert, described parts of his research in a manner that “have been proven to be false.”

Something similar seems to be happening in the Accutane litigation. There’s (more…)

Keeping Private Health Data Private – “Inadvertent Disclosures” with Peer to Peer Networks

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

This is a video well worth watching as he explains how peer to peer software can lead to problems and data on the web that should not be there.  When finding data on the web, sometimes things are mistaken as a full on “breach” when in fact it is really an “inadvertent disclosure”, in other words no security was compromised from the operating system, but rather information was leaked out due to security configurations and use (more…)