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<h3>Excerpt</h3> <div><div> <DIV><DIV><B>1</B><BR><B>Missing Data</B><BR> <BR><BR>Sponsors get the answer they want<BR>Before we get going, we need to establish one thing beyond any doubt: industry-funded trials are more likely to produce a positive, flattering result than independently funded trials. This is our core premise, and you’re about to read a very short chapter, because this is one of the most well-documented phenomena in the growing field of ‘research about research’. It has also become much easier to study in recent years, because the rules on declaring industry funding have become a little clearer.<BR>We can begin with some recent work: in 2010, three researchers from Harvard and Toronto found all the trials looking at five major classes of drug – antidepressants, ulcer drugs and so on – then measured two key features: were they positive, and were they funded by industry?1 They found over five hundred trials in total: 85 per cent of the industry-funded studies were positive, but only 50 per cent of the government-funded trials were. That’s a very significant difference.<BR>In 2007, researchers looked at every published trial that set out to explore the benefit of a st

Who reads Bad Pharma : How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients?

Author

Goldacre, Ben, author

Publisher

New York: Faber & Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865478060

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Business, Fiction

Rating

4.09 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14