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Why do we only see positive results published?

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In today's episode, Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham answerers a listener's question "Why do we only see positive results published?"

Additional Information

  • Publication bias: the problem that won't go away  - Dickersin and Min (1993) Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences
  • The importance of no evidence -  Editorial Nature Human Behaviour (2019)
  • When Scientists Find Nothing: The Value of Null Results - Inside Science (2020)
  • Monday Science Episode 70 - COVID19 Retracted Papers 
  • Example of where studies have investigated the influence of publication bias and impact

    • -  Suicide risk with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other new-generation antidepressants in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies [Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2021]

    - Vitamin D and covid-19 [BMJ, 2021] - Rapid Responses 

    • BMC Psychology ‘results-free- peer-review' process
      • PubPeer.com

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