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HPR2695: Problems with Studies


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All medical studies are not alike. Some are of higher quality than others, and the conclusions they reach need to be evaluated based on some principles of good research. Here we take a look at some warning signs of bad or unreliable studies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
https://www.wired.com/story/social-science-reproducibility
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/rigorous-replication-effort-succeeds-just-two-five-cancer-papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk#Controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiki_Sasai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx0fAjNHb1M
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002106
https://www.palain.com/?page_id=358
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