How I Lost my Faith in Scientists
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...medical, biological, and chemical problems from doctors and scientists, and when they fail to give us those answers, we lose faith in
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Data Matter
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...studies. When the systematic reviews are based upon insufficient reporting of negative or null results, the review is likely inaccurate. Publication bias,
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...leading medical journals. As we and others have reported before, publication bias, the tendency to publish only those studies that present positive
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...Obstetrics and Gynecology published a story reporting that only 30% of Ob/Gyn clinical practice guidelines were evidence based. When combined with the
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Making the Rounds: Penis Size and Condom Use
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...the last (just like the next new, shiny iPhone or iPad). And then of course, there is the problem of fraudulent data
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...medical research, clinical trials and adverse events are made open and accessible to patients and physicians, medical marketing, fabricated data or omitted
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Why Academic Research is Dead
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...field of nutrition, researchers can lose their careers, face lawsuits and worse, when they dare to attempt to publish their work (see
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...us (Vioxx, for example). Even research in major medical journals is suspect, with publication bias and outright fraud. Medical decision making is
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