a new study sheds light on the honesty of scientific research on stroke medications. The study found that up to 33% of research results have been absconded. It’s well known that much research in this country on strokes is paid for by the large drug corporations. They fund the research, they approve the results. If you don’t discover what they want to read, your research can simply be ignored.
This manifests itself not in false studies, but in missing studies. When you’re studying a new stroke medication on animals and your research fails to prove the drug has any benefits, your work is simply forgotten, ignored, or lost.
Registration Required for Human Trials
Thankfully in 2007 the major medical journals have required registration BEFORE you start a study. This means that you can’t cheat and simply ignore results that don’t agree with the desired corporate outcome. However, that also means for the past 80-90 years it was acceptable to bias your research by making sure no one read studies your benefactor didn’t agree with.
Hopefully, enough people will care about this to demand registration for ALL peer-reviewed published research.
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