There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others’ ideas about what is okay.
BEN GOLDACRETransparency and detail are everything in science.
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These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
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You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
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I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way that evidence is used in mainstream academia, medicine and in (government) policy.
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I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
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But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.
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You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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I’ve detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you.
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Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.
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One of the things I always found interesting is the same tricks are used to distort medicine in all of those domains.
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Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
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As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.
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I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.
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I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.
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