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Here is a great paper that shows that more than 99% of Chinese clinical trials show a positive result. Either null results are being suppressed or data is being
by tedsanders 12y ago
Here is a great paper that shows that more than 99% of Chinese clinical trials show a positive result. Either null results are being suppressed or data is being fabricated.
http://www.dcscience.net/Vickers_1998_Controlled-Clinical-Trials.pdf http://www.dcscience.net/Vickers_1998_Controlled-Clinical-Tr...
Good science certainly comes out of China, but a lot bad science comes along too.
- jo_ 12y agoIt should be noted that the paper (as I've read in the abstract) extrapolates from MEDICAL data. There's a huge prevalence of pseudomedicine and mysticism which receives incorrect confirmation (as evidenced by the aforementioned paper), but a poor publication record in medicine journals isn't necessarily a good predictor of physics journals.
- DevX101 12y agoUS journals aren't big on publishing null results either.