research waste

Abstract Background At the 2015 REWARD/EQUATOR conference on research waste, the late Doug Altman revealed that his only regret about his 1994 BMJ paper ‘The scandal of poor medical research’ was that he used the word ‘poor’ rather than ‘bad’. But how much research is bad? And what would...

We’re Incentivizing Bad Science Current research trends resemble the early 21st century’s financial bubble ... Unless and until leadership is taken at a structural and societal level to alter the incentive structure present, the current environment will continue to encourage and promote wasting...

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/08/09/virginia-minogue-and-bill-wells-patients-and-the-public-are-essential-to-reducing-research-waste/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_term=&utm_content=SME&utm_campaign=editors

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/waste-1000-studies/589684/

https://meaustralia.net/2018/06/28/research-waste-in-me-and-cfs-trials/ University of Sydney’s Dr Sonia Lee looked at selective reporting in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome research. The study found psychosocial trials on ME and CFS are more likely to engage in selective...