You saw an extract from his book the other day, here he is at TED, Ben Goldacre
on how the system that is the very basis of “evidence medicine” is a load of bollocks [my paraphrasing] concealling a systemmatic flaw at the very core of medicine.
Around half of all trials go missing…
Trials showing positive findings – ie that the drugs do work are twice as likely to be published as negative findings – that they don’t work.
Like he says if I withheld 50% of the results from flipping a coin, you’d likely regard that as cheating.
“This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.”
Ben Goldacre
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