http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/07/03/disturbing-news-for-anyone-over-25/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:56:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/07/03/disturbing-news-for-anyone-over-25/#comment-79455 Barry Dauphin Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:44:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/07/03/disturbing-news-for-anyone-over-25/#comment-79455 And since drug trials use statisitically signifcant differences to claim one drug is better than another and/or placebo, failure to publish negative findings distorts this process. The negative findings never make it into meta-analytic work that is used to group the results (statistics) of various studies together to determine the efficacy of an itervention. There ought to be a public data base of all findings, including negative ones. And since drug trials use statisitically signifcant differences to claim one drug is better than another and/or placebo, failure to publish negative findings distorts this process. The negative findings never make it into meta-analytic work that is used to group the results (statistics) of various studies together to determine the efficacy of an itervention. There ought to be a public data base of all findings, including negative ones.

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