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- How to Make More Published Research True http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001747 31 comments
- Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001533 88 comments
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005) http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 2 comments
- Malaria Vaccine reduces prevalence of Malaria up to at least 18 months. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001685 30 comments science
- Science can predict if a seemingly healthy person will die on the short term, based on 4 biomarkers (alpha-1-acid glycoprotein, albumin, VLDL particle size, and citrate). Because of ethics, this information will however probably not be made available through tests. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001606#s6 196 comments science
- Studies with financial conflicts of interest are 5x more likely to find no link between sugary drinks and weight gain. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001578 379 comments science
- Financial Conflicts of Interest and Reporting Bias Regarding the Association between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Weight Gain: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001578 12 comments science
- Do sustained and fulfilling online relationships mitigate the health risks of long term social isolation? http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000316 6 comments askscience
- Most current published research findings in scientific fields are false and may often be accurate measures of bias. More can be done to account for bias, increasing randomised trials and testing true, rather than non-true relationships before running experiments. Paper published in PLOS Medicine. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124;jsessionid=c921f681ef3af12caefe43a385515d93 2 comments science
- The combination of poor study design, over-reliance on statistics, and incentives for conclusive results has led to such widespread systematic bias that more than half of published research finding in medicine are false. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 60 comments science
- TIL drug reps categorise doctors based on their interactions with them and have different sales methods for different personality types, and notes on specific doctors are readily shared between reps (and other interesting things about the tactics of drug reps!) http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040150 71 comments science
- Study finds that at least 3/4 of civilian deaths in Iraq can be attributed to sectarian violence, anti-coalition insurgent forces, and crime. Of civilian deaths attributable to coalition forces, air strikes caused the most civilian deaths per event. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000415 29 comments worldevents
- “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” [PLoS 2005, free full-text] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124 10 comments science
- Obese people and smokers die soon enough that they may have lower lifetime medical costs. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029 317 comments science