Are Most Scientific Studies False and Biased? Part II

In my homepage
blog, I discussed the flaws and biases in supplement and drug trials. This is
part II of the discussion.

A 2005 review tilted, “Why Most
Published Research Findings Are False,” provides a good summary of factors that
influence conclusions of studies (bold emphasis mine):

“There is
increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The
probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and
bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the
ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each
scientific field. In this framework, …read more