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In a similar vein: Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_know_about_the_drugs_
by nodata 14y ago
In a similar vein: Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_what_doctors_don_t_know_about_the_drugs_they_prescribe.html
The talk focuses on how peer reviewed journals provenly publish the positive test results, and not the negative results. He gives the example of Tamiflu, where the 50/50 split between actual positive/negative tests was not reflected in the journals at all - anyone reading the journals would get a remarkably positive view of the drug.
- xbryanx 14y agoHis blog is a regularly enjoyable read on these issues: http://www.badscience.net/ http://www.badscience.net/