Just a quickie today. Please go and sign this petition: All Trials Registered.
Around half of all clinical trials have not been published; some trials have not even been registered. If action is not taken urgently, information on what was done and what was found in trials could be lost forever, leading to bad treatment decisions, missed opportunities for good medicine, and trials being repeated unnecessarily.
This is one of Ben Goldacre‘s pet projects, and it’s crucial. In his words: “Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.”
Find out a little more about why this is so important here.
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