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Re:Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Studies by jMyles on Saturday August 29, 2015 @06:17AM (#10139565)
I think it's healthy to suspect that the entire pharmacopoeia-industrial-complex has a similar rate of veracity.
Re:Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Studies by ArekDymalski on Saturday August 29, 2015 @07:30AM (#10139678)
I'm absolutely sure about that. As a student I was working (as a technician) on many medical science conferences, so I had an opportunity to see the "bleeding edge" research presentations. I was shocked by the level of confidence demonstrated by "scientists" who promoted results of their N=5 experiments (without a comparison group) as "convincing". If all therapies are based on such research, we have to be happy that our bodies are impressively self-repairing machines.