I don’t know whether ‘Sir’ Simon Jenkins has acquired the clout to by-pass sub-editors and supply the (sub-)headlines to his own articles. If he has, then he palpably lacks the nuance one might fairly expect from a journalist of his seniority and standing, his recent piece – Scientists aren’t gods. They deserve the same scrutiny as anyone else – suggesting he’s not much better than any outrage-provoking, clickbait-generating hack.
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Showing posts with label All Trials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All Trials. Show all posts
Saturday, 11 June 2016
Sunday, 30 August 2015
AllTrials – Half of all clinical trials have never reported results
We’re sometimes asked if it’s still true that around half of clinical trials have never reported results. Yes, it is.
Some people point towards recent studies that found a higher rate of publication than that. Great! With all the campaigning, new laws, new regulations and emerging codes of conduct we and others have worked towards, it comes as no surprise that the situation is gradually improving. But these studies look at clinical trials conducted very recently, often on the newest drugs, and therefore represent a tiny fraction of all the clinical trials that have ever been conducted. There’s a massive backlog of unpublished trials reaching back decades. A large proportion of these past trials, or tens of thousands of new trials, would have to publish results for the percentage of unpublished trials to change significantly...
Read the full story and sign the petition here: AllTrials – Half of all clinical trials have never reported results
Some people point towards recent studies that found a higher rate of publication than that. Great! With all the campaigning, new laws, new regulations and emerging codes of conduct we and others have worked towards, it comes as no surprise that the situation is gradually improving. But these studies look at clinical trials conducted very recently, often on the newest drugs, and therefore represent a tiny fraction of all the clinical trials that have ever been conducted. There’s a massive backlog of unpublished trials reaching back decades. A large proportion of these past trials, or tens of thousands of new trials, would have to publish results for the percentage of unpublished trials to change significantly...
Read the full story and sign the petition here: AllTrials – Half of all clinical trials have never reported results
Saturday, 11 January 2014
The All Trials dilemma | WWDDTYDTY
WDDTY has a dilemma.
On the one hand, Ben Goldacre‘s book Bad Pharma is, on the face of it, a gift to quacks, shining a light on chronic abuse of the clinical trials system by Big Pharma – and the All Trials initiative is a public campaign that is likely to effect material change.
On the other, WDDTY is part of the world characterised by Wally Sampson as “sectarian medicine”, where taking sides is the thing that matters most. Sectarianism is why quacks support each other even when their ideas are mutually exclusive. WDDTY cannot promote Bad Pharma or support All Trials, because Ben Goldacre is one of the most effective critics of quackery today, and All Trials is promoted by Sense About Science.
As in politics: the mere fact of having been suggested by the “opposition” makes it ideologically impossible to get behind an idea, no matter how transparently sensible and correct it is.
Continue reading: The All Trials dilemma | WWDDTYDTY
On the one hand, Ben Goldacre‘s book Bad Pharma is, on the face of it, a gift to quacks, shining a light on chronic abuse of the clinical trials system by Big Pharma – and the All Trials initiative is a public campaign that is likely to effect material change.
On the other, WDDTY is part of the world characterised by Wally Sampson as “sectarian medicine”, where taking sides is the thing that matters most. Sectarianism is why quacks support each other even when their ideas are mutually exclusive. WDDTY cannot promote Bad Pharma or support All Trials, because Ben Goldacre is one of the most effective critics of quackery today, and All Trials is promoted by Sense About Science.
As in politics: the mere fact of having been suggested by the “opposition” makes it ideologically impossible to get behind an idea, no matter how transparently sensible and correct it is.
Continue reading: The All Trials dilemma | WWDDTYDTY
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