Saturday, April 01, 2006

April Fools




After having quite a few drinks last night, Rob finally admitted to wearing these, when engaging in role playing games.


2 comments:

Anonymous Coward said...

Wow that was scalding. I agree there is a conflict of interrest, journals should not publish results of clinical trials only analyses. Results should be in a public database.

"Examples of Methods for Pharmaceutical Companies to Get the Results They Want from Clinical Trials

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Conduct a trial of your drug against a treatment known to be inferior.
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Trial your drugs against too low a dose of a competitor drug.
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Conduct a trial of your drug against too high a dose of a competitor drug (making your drug seem less toxic).
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Conduct trials that are too small to show differences from competitor drugs.
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Use multiple endpoints in the trial and select for publication those that give favourable results.
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Do multicentre trials and select for publication results from centres that are favourable.
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Conduct subgroup analyses and select for publication those that are favourable.
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Present results that are most likely to impress—for example, reduction in relative rather than absolute risk.
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Anonymous said...

Interesting comment on the giant condom that I have to use. That is really the reason why I'm so poor. Those things are expensive.
Perhaps your comment belongs two posts above??