Monday, April 12, 2010
This week's least surprising story
Let me understand this: researchers who were paid by a pharmaceutical company developing a particular treatment were more likely to report positively on the drug's effects on patients. Shocking. And I'm not saying the relationships/reasons are totally obvious, either. But to me, this is similar to how people who study a particular protein and, say, get the bulk of their grant money for studying that protein, are likely to publish studies stating how important protein x is. I wrote about this back in 2008.
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