BMJ  2004;329 (25 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7468.0-h

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Is it better to be smart or stupid?

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At a meeting last week I was reminded of a quote by Victor Hugo: "A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion of an idea." We'd like to think your cluttered heads permit invasion by a few ideas from each week's BMJ about how to make decisions on patient management or policy making, things that are useful in day to day practice. One of the criticisms we often hear is that this focus misses some of the more innovative and interesting work done to test early ideas and hypotheses. In response we introduced an occasional section called research pointers, studies that wowed us but were a little removed from patient care or policy change. Some readers may have never seen this section, but this is no shaggy dog story.

We now publish a study that wowed (some of) us so much . . . [Full text of this article]

Kamran Abbasi, acting editor

(kabbasi@bmj.com)


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