Medical Research

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
medical research skewed statistically to favor outcomes.
In poring over medical journals, he was struck by how many findings of all types were refuted by later findings. Of course, medical-science “never minds” are hardly secret. And they sometimes make headlines, as when in recent years large studies or growing consensuses of researchers concluded that mammograms, colonoscopies, and PSA tests are far less useful cancer-detection tools than we had been told; or when widely prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil were revealed to be no more effective than a placebo for most cases of depression; or when we learned...

Lies damn lies and medical science

Reading this article had confirmed what i suspected for years . it pays to do your own research on treatments and drugs . do not discount other modes of thought for solutions . when research is done by drug companies for profit motive can you trust the conclusions then released to news agencies.
He charges that as much as 90 percent of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed. His work has been widely accepted by the medical community; it has been published in the field’s top journals, where it is heavily cited; and he is a big draw at conferences