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Carl Heneghan & Jason Oke
Dr Jason Oke is a Senior Statistician at Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Carl Heneghan is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and Director of Studies for the Evidence-Based Health Care Programmes at Oxford.

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