Most Medical Research Is Wrong

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

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Most Research Findings Are False for Most Research Designs and for Most Fields In the described framework, a PPV exceeding 50% is quite difficult to get. Table 4 provides the results of simulations using the formulas developed for the influence of …

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

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Why medical research keeps changing its mind

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The most common conditions were cardiovascular disease, preventive medicine, and critical care medicine (such as care received in an intensive care unit). …

Beware those scientific studies—most are …

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A few years ago, two researchers took the 50 most-used ingredients in a cook book and studied how …

Why most published research findings are false - PubMed

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In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and …

Is most medical research wrong? Why or why not? - Quora

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Much medical research is case-based, rather than controlled experiments. This is an inherently weaker form of evidence. There are almost certainly uncontrolled (and …

A Researcher’s Claim: 90% of Medical …

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A Researcher’s Claim: 90% of Medical Research Is Wrong. Are 90% of all medical studies wrong — including nearly half of those claimed to be the most …

Pitfalls in Research: Why Studies Are More …

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Science-based medicine relies on evidence from clinical trials, especially those that are randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled. But that evidence …

Top 10 Clinical Trials That Went Horribly …

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Top 10 Clinical Trials That Went Horribly Wrong 10The University of Minnesota Seroquel Experiment. Ever since her son’s untimely death, Mary …

Nearly all of our medical research is wrong

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When it came to light that the biotechnology firm Amgen tried to reproduce 53 “landmark” cancer studies and managed to confirm only six, scientists were …