A large excerpt from a post by psychiatrist and MIA Blogger David Healy is sandwiched between commentary by psychiatrist Allen Frances on The Huffington Post, as both discuss the declining reliability of medical and psychiatric research.
“It’s been many years since I have trusted anything I read in a medical or psychiatric journal,” writes Frances. “There is an enterprise wide positive bias; findings never seem to replicate; benefits are hyped; harms are hidden.”
The Crisis of Confidence in Medical Research (Huffington Post, January 12, 2015)
