Flaws are found in validating medical studies
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 at 2:31 pm
And I had so much faith in peer review and Evidenced-Based Medicine: Flaws are found in validating medical studies - "They are two of the most widely publicized pieces of medical research in recent years: Reports in prestigious journals declared that women who underwent hormone replacement therapy, and people who ingested large amounts of Vitamin E, had relatively low rates of heart disease.
Each study was vetted by peer review, the basic process for checking medical research, in which other researchers judge whether papers meet scientific standards.
But after research contradicted those studies — frustrating anyone who had followed their recommendations — some specialists began looking at whether peer review had failed to identify serious flaws in the research."
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