OFF TOPIC -falsified scientific results

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I am currently reading Prof Uffe Ravnskov's, MD, PhD new book: FAT AND CHOLESTEROL ARE GOOD FOR YOU. (ISBN 978-91-975553-8-8... Published 2009)

 

He spends quite a lot of time expounding on how research is manipulated to suit what the instigators want to achieve, (honesty and integrity???? Nah!) so I was pleasantly suprised to come across the following article today http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09052937-how-many-scientists-fabricate-falsify-research

 

 

On average, across the surveys, around 2% of scientists admitted they had 'fabricated' (made up), 'falsified' or 'altered' data to 'improve the outcome' at least once, and up to 34% admitted to other questionable research practices including 'failing to present data that contradict one's own previous research' and 'dropping observations or data points from analyses based on a gut feeling that they were inaccurate.' [end quote]

Of course Prof Uffe is concentrating his efforts on those organisations that have an endpoint to prove that Cholesterol is bad - Statins are the 'life savers of the human race'. I can highly recommend his easy to read style, which gives complete facts and figures and lots of footnotes. He really shows how statistics are manipulated and misinformation is rampant - to the complete detriment of the 'patient'.

 

Clare in Tasmania