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Participación ciudadana y posverdad: la amenaza de la posverdad participativa
2020
Citizen participation is presented today, within the political discourse, as the legitimizing and revitalizing panacea par excellence of the worn and reviled representative democracy. However, the instruments that supposedly promote it, the language with which it is proposed and the enormous force with which the ‘post-truth’ has broken into the political landscape, capable of imposing on the public opinion an adulterated and falsified version of reality has not only caused the citizen to withdraw and distrust the regenerative force of the current participatory paradigm. Even more, we must be on our guard against the extraordinary manipulative power that is contained in the conjunction of pa…
Is 're-calibration' of standard cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk algorithms the panacea to improved CVD risk prediction and prevention?
2018
This editorial refers to ‘Equalization of four cardiovascular risk algorithms after systematic recalibration: individual-participant meta-analysis of 86 prospective studies’, by L. Pennells et al., doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehy653.