It ain't necessarily so. A response to the commentaries

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A Response to Commentaries

Our article "NFL Player Health Care: Addressing Club Doctors' Conflicts of Interests and Promoting Player Trust" focused on an inherent structural conflict that faces club doctors in the National Football League. The conflict stems from club doctors' dual role of providing medical care to players and providing strategic advice to clubs. We recommended assigning these roles to different individu...

It Ain’t Necessarily So: Checking Charts for Robustness

Graphics such as statistical charts are crucial tools for communicating the essence of data, but require care in their construction: a chart for a given data set could appear to tell a range of stories, depending just on parameter values used in generating the chart. We are investigating how providing an interactive history of chart-parameter manipulations could encourage people to check the ro...

Low-dose aspirin and stroke. "It ain't necessarily so".

Most clinicians have assumed that very low doses of aspirin might be effective in preventing stroke and death in patients presenting with transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and stroke. In fact, 325 mg/day or less are often advocated despite the large numbers of well-designed, prospective controlled studies involving stroke-threatened patients that demonstrate the effect of doses greater than 975...