Tag: scientific integrity

The Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warns that much of today’s research is unreliable, yet insists the project is worth defending.

We have reached the point where we have to ask: Is psychiatry doing anything useful for society, or has it degenerated to an insatiable, high-cost and self-sustaining rentier gorging on the public purse? The Australian Productivity Commission is holding an enquiry into mental health; it is to be hoped that this will assist in the process of uncovering the truth.

While there has been a recent push to account for financial conflicts of interest in medical research, less attention has been paid to organizations...