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Misrepresentation and distortion of research in biomedical literature, Boutron and Ravaud, 2018

Discussion in 'Research methodology news and research' started by Indigophoton, Mar 26, 2018.

  1. Indigophoton

    Indigophoton Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    There's a neat summary of some of the issues,

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    I haven't read the paper properly yet, but noticed this comment in particular,
    (emphasis added).

    http://www.pnas.org/content/115/11/2613
     
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  2. Philipp

    Philipp Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    It would be interesting to see if the part about "requesting the addition of spin" is more common with psychology-associated research. I vaguely remember something about reviewers not wanting to add comments about how subjective outcome measures in unblinded trials are problematic...
     

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