Anti-Alcohol Studies Will Never Be Validated

You’ve likely read all the hullabaloo about the dangers of any amount of alcohol, like: No level of alcohol consumption is safe No level is safe – not even one glass of red wine/day Spread the word – no amount of alcohol is safe Here are five reasons why this conclusion is completely wrong and […]

ValidPoints November 2025

ValidPoints November Issue: YOU Powered Symposium’s Shark Tank winner gets $50,000! Will Cancer Detection Tests Cause the Next Cost Explosion? Aon’s Report on Lyra is an Excellent Teaching Tool…and more! The YOU Powered Symposium Benefits Shark Tank is back and there’s blood in the water and $50,000 on the line! Get ready for the most […]

Will Cancer Detection Tests Cause the Next Cost Explosion?

Move over, weight loss drugs. The next explosion in costs could be cancer detection tests. Several new tests for cancer are now on the market. Galleri was first on the market, Cologuard has just introduced Cancerguard. Not to be outdone, an outfit called Mito screens for not just cancers, but 800 different conditions/diseases with a […]

Aon’s Report on Lyra is an Excellent Teaching Tool (Part 2)

This is Part Two of the teaching tool that Aon was gracious enough to provide (See Part One here), and consent to our usage. It is part of the Advanced Critical Outcomes Report Analysis (CORA Pro) curriculum, and we have encouraged Validation Institute (VI)-validated entities and individuals to share it with others, to increase the […]

Aon’s Report on Lyra is an Excellent Teaching Tool (Part 1)

Aon’s White Paper detailing Lyra’s “savings” is an excellent teaching tool for those interested in improving their skills in outcomes measurement.  Before we get into the content, we would like to make two acknowledgements: We would like to thank Lyra for graciously making this report available to us and other experts at no charge, to […]

ValidPoints August-September 2025

ValidPoints August-September Issue: Plausibility Testing Vendor Claims – Part Two,Four Newly Validated Programs,Advisors Hold the Key to Compliance, and More Plausibility Testing Vendor Claims Part two By Al Lewis,Founder & Validator-In-Chief,Validation Institute  When a vendor submits a participants-vs-“propensity-matched”-non-participants study for validation, we always add the Limitation that the former will always outperform the latter regardless of the […]

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