Ben Goldacre TED MED 2012: Industry bias against negative outcomes

Industry bias against negative outcomes

What we don’t know can hurt us: Industry bias against negative outcomes means vast amounts of research goes unpublished, Ben Goldacre says.

 

Relevant article from GreenMedInfo.com: ‘Evidence-Based’ Medicine: A Coin’s Flip Worth of Certainty

Excerpt:

What if 90% of the peer-reviewed clinical research, the holy grail of the conventional medical system, is exaggerated, or worse, completely false?

A seismic shift is occurring in the field of evidence-based medicine that a rare few are aware of, but which will (and likely already does) affect everyone, as the standard of medical care today largely follows from this model.

The very life’s blood of ‘evidence-based’ medicine — peer-reviewed and published clinical research results – which legitimizes the entire infrastructure and superstructure upon which conventional medical knowledge and practice is erected, has been revealed as mostly and patently false. Read More

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