Lies, damned lies and medical science
The Atlantic
by David Freedman
10/21/10
Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors ? to a striking extent ? still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science...
http://tinyurl.com/35fe5kb
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Conflict of Interest in Drug Studies Sneaking Back
A McGill study analyzing 29 'studies of studies' (meta-analyses) found that important declarations of financial conflicts-of-interest in individual drug trials disappeared when those studies were combined in meta-analyses. Dr. John Ioannidis, a foremost expert on clinical trial methodology has identified various factors that, in one way or another, confound the integrity of medical research reports. He found that 'as much as 90% of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed.' We believe that the single most potent factor undermining the veracity of medical research and meta-analyses is imbedded financial conflicts of interest.
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6008#newspost
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Freedman
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by David Freedman
10/21/10
Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors ? to a striking extent ? still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science...
http://tinyurl.com/35fe5kb
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Conflict of Interest in Drug Studies Sneaking Back
A McGill study analyzing 29 'studies of studies' (meta-analyses) found that important declarations of financial conflicts-of-interest in individual drug trials disappeared when those studies were combined in meta-analyses. Dr. John Ioannidis, a foremost expert on clinical trial methodology has identified various factors that, in one way or another, confound the integrity of medical research reports. He found that 'as much as 90% of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed.' We believe that the single most potent factor undermining the veracity of medical research and meta-analyses is imbedded financial conflicts of interest.
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6008#newspost
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Freedman
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