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>Newsnight has seen that unpublished data and it shows (...) > Prof Rod Stables (...) said this information should have been published and knowing it would hav
by woliveirajr 7y ago
>Newsnight has seen that unpublished data and it shows (...)
> Prof Rod Stables (...) said this information should have been published and knowing it would have made a "substantial contribution to our ability to appreciate the nuances of the results".
>Prof Nick Freemantle worked on the guidelines. He told Newsnight he would "never" have agreed the treatments were interchangeable if he had seen the leaked data.
This is becoming too common to be ignored: sugar coating scientific production so that they are unreproducible, is purely misleading, or the conclusions would be different if some data didn't hold back.Of course, adding health, conflict of interest (despite it being warned in the article) and industry just makes things more dangerous, but the essence is the same: more scientific papers being published each year don't mean more quality, nor that we are making all the progress we think.