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But there's going to be publication bias regardless of pharma's incentives, right? If I'm running a medical journal, why would I publish an article that says "
by kvb 14y ago
But there's going to be publication bias regardless of pharma's incentives, right? If I'm running a medical journal, why would I publish an article that says "this new slightly larger study also found drug x effective"?
- refurb 14y agoAn even better question would be: if I'm running a medical journal, why would I publish an article that states "new therapy for kidney cancer found not to be effective" People forget that publishing a paper is no small feat in and of itself. Extensive data analysis, manuscript writing, reviewing, editing, legal clearance, etc. Are people really suggesting that a pharma company who conducts a trial and figures out that 1/2 through the trial the drug isn't working should be forced to do a complete data analysis and publish the results? That sounds ridiculous.