[extropy-chat] Are vaccinations useless?

[Robin Hanson]

At 06:17 PM 3/20/2006, Hal Finney wrote:
>A couple of interesting points with regard to scientific/medical research
>and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in particular:
>
>Last year, a slashdot article was titled, "Study Shows One Third of All
>Studies Are Nonsense":
>http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/2255243
>It points to this JAMA article:
>http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/2/218

The current issue of Nature has this article:

Nature, Volume 440 Number 7082 p270

Drug trials: Stacking the deck

Studies of medical literature are confirming what 
many suspected ­ reporters of clinical trials do 
not always play straight. Jim Giles talks to those pushing for a fairer deal.

doi:10.1038/440270a
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