game changing research

hmm game changers ……………. common sense in some cases but should always be promoted

John P. A. Ioannidis
(born August 21, 1965, in New York City) is a Professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford School of Medicine, the University’s Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention and director of its Prevention Research Center, and co-director, along with Steven Goodman, of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS).[1][2] He was chairman at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine as well as adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.[3][4] He is best known for his research and published papers on scientific studies,

he studies the studies

in the 100 most-cited among all 20+ million authors publishing across science

particularly the 2005 paper

“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”.

Ioannidis’s 2005 paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”[5] has been the most downloaded technical paper from the journal PLoS Medicine.[8]

odd for our “evidence based medicine” era

http://www.lightenyourtoxicload.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/uneasy-alliance-COI.pdf.

(9) Seventy percent of
the money for clinical drug trials in the United States comes from industry rather than from
the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12775614
Studies sponsored by pharmaceutical companies were more likely to have outcomes favouring the sponsor’ odds ratio 4.05

essentially 70% of drug studies are infomercials

only in america?!?

or this http://i.imgur.com/dG1Gzhx.png

hilariously from