Audio long read: Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up. Faked or unreliable trials are dangerous, as they could end up being included in the reviews that help inform clinical treatments. However, the extent of the problem in unclear, and many researchers urge stronger scrutiny.

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1:03.7	This is an audio long read from nature. In this episode, medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are
1:12.9	faked or flawed, written by Richard Van Norden and read by me, Benjamin Thompson.
1:19.9	How many clinical trial studies in medical journals are fake or fatally flawed? In October 2020,
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