How Much Scientific Research Is Actually Fraudulent?

Reason ^ | 7-9-21 | Ronald Bailey

[Terry L Smith]

How much of the taxpayers’ money is funding all sorts of nonsensical studies and experiments?

[bert]

The vast unwashed ignorati whine about that which their unequal intellects can’t comprehend

[Daveinyork]

Too many research grants require the conclusion that the grantor wants, and it’s easy. Just ignore exculpatory evidence.

[mn-bush-man]

Are you suggesting that where power, money, and notoriety are in play corruption exists? That is so contrary to human nature.
/sarcasm

[null and void]

48.69532% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[Percy Quattro]

How many patents are based on fake science? Guessing China has made a science out of that.

[hinckley buzzard]

Some of the worst systematic offenses have been found in Europe, such as the Dutch study reported here, and previous reports from Sweden of widespread research fraud. With the huge incentives present in the
climate change” business, almost all research being irreproducible, fraud is no doubt world wide. See Climategate centered in East Anglia Great Britain. In regards to medical “research.” the “gold standard’ is a fake standard much of the time, as we have regular exposures of faked data from anywhere such research is being done.

[null and void]

Monumentally wise rules from Dutch Boy:

Here is my test if science is real.

1. Is the result useful politically?
2. Is it being used politically?
3. Who does the result profit?
4. What are the goals of those that profit?

The government wants to disarm us after 245 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!

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"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." ~ Putt's Law

[pfflier]

Put a white lab coat on and it must be science.

Almost everybody is familiar with this Eisenhower line from his farewell speech:

"we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

Almost no on knows this line follows a few paragraphs later in the same speech

"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

[zeugma]

former editor of the medical journal The BMJ Richard Smith asks if it's "time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise."

Yup. I'd agree with that. The amount of 'science' that is not reproducible is staggering these days.

[zeugma]

"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

Yup. The suppression of that line almost seems to be purposeful.

[little jeremiah]

I’ve read that at least 50% of all (say in authoritative reverent tone) “scientific research” is totally fraudulent. Scientists = the new high priests; scientism = the new religion. We must all genuflect and obey or we get burned at the stake figuratively speaking.

[HollyB]

The Lancet has destroyed their reputation. Everyone fell for their BS.

[consult]

Comes down to Conflicts of interest (COI). Politics is the latest COI that has taken us by storm.

• Of 198 U.S. editors of 5 high-impact emergency medicine journals, 60 (30%) had a financial conflict of interest, but only 7 editors had publicly disclosed their conflicts (Ann Emerg Med 2019 Apr 5;e-pub).
• Variables in study design, including dosing, length of the study and follow-ups, measures employed, selection of comparators and their dosing, and other parameters may increase the likelihood that one agent appears to perform better than a placebo or comparator (Industry sponsorship and financial conflict of interest in the reporting of clinical trials in psychiatry. Am J Psychiatry 2005;162:1957-60)…. industry-sponsored studies are associated with a higher likelihood that the drug was found superior to placebo.

• An analysis of 585 trials finds that almost a quarter (25%) of completed or terminated trials were unavailable online (at ClinicalTrials.gov) or in print (BMJ 2013;347:f6104)....yet the FDA Amendments Act requires that many clinical trials (e.g., prospective clinical studies of health outcomes, controlled interventional studies in humans, trials involving drugs or devices) be registered and their results be posted on ClinicalTrials.gov. Nonpublication was significantly more common among trials that were not supported by federal funding (e.g., NIH) than among trials with federal funding (31% vs. 17%) and significantly more common among trials supported by industry funding than trials without industry funding (32% vs. 18%). No results at all were available for 133 trials (23%). Nonpublication of trial results violates ethical responsibilities to participants (who risked participating) and society (which philosophically and financially supports research).

• Company-sponsored studies are significantly more likely to paint a rosy picture of their drug or device than independent trials, according to a Cochrane review (Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;12).....company-sponsored trials were more likely to report favorable efficacy results (risk ratio [RR], 1.24; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14 - 1.35), safety profiles (RR, 1.87; 95% CI, 1.54 - 2.27), and conclusions (RR, 1.31; 95% CI, 1.20 - 1.44) compared with non–industry sponsored studies.

I could go on and on......

[wardaddy]

You can trust science about as much as media now

I noticed certain segments of science went left in the 80s

Science based in culture and human behavior has always been susceptible....and sciences which can exploited to help govt increase control seem the rage now

[Qui is]

Scientific research and the result of that research is always biased (a.k.a.: lies) whenever it is government funded.

[PGalt]

thanks nully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1-nkqwmjI

Truth

[MarvinStinson]

MR. SCIENCE

[bagster]

Harry Seldon saw this coming.

[GOPJ]

Here is my test if science is real. 1. Is the result useful politically? 2. Is it being used politically? 3. Who does the result profit? 4. What are the goals of those that profit?

Excellent...