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Now imagine being a patient reading those studies and knowing that. Struck a nerve

• vanderZwan 10y ago
  Biology is related to medicine, but not researched quite the same way. Medicine certainly has it's own issues, but they're working on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam... http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21598944-sloppy-researchers-beware-new-institute-has-you-its-sights-metaphysicians/ http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2159894... I mean really, the Churchill quote about democracy applies here as well: the current way of doing research is the worst possible way of doing it, except for all the other ways we've tried before.
  • shanacarp 10y ago
    I was thinking more along the lines of the Myriad Database http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/filling-in-the-unknown-unknowns-of-cancer-genetic-testing/409828/ http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/filling-i... VUSes that actually could be clinically significant are hoarded, and conversely, some companies claim to know that certain VUSes are not based on their own proprietary data that no one else sees/double checks. meanwhile the actual data comes from patients, who are left in the dark That's just cruel. Comparatively, at least CS gets math formulations
    • vanderZwan 10y ago
      Ah, I get your point now