Erick Turner - Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: How Publication Bias Threatens Research Integrity and Public Health

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Erick Turner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He is also a senior scholar with OHSU’s Center for Ethics and Health Care.

Dr. Turner has been an FDA reviewer and has dedicated his work and life to improving research transparency. He’s well known for his work on publication bias and antidepressant trials, but his findings show that psychotherapy research is also riddled with problems.

What happens when those we trust with knowledge in our society betray us? In today’s interview, we discuss how dubious research practices are not simply the work of a few bad apples but instead built into the way we produce knowledge. We further explore the consequences of these practices on patients and the dangerous tradition of journal worship before exploring how many of these problems can be solved.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:13.3	Hello everyone and welcome to Mad in America. This is your host for today, Ayyrdi Dhar. I am an assistant professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia
0:22.1	and a spotlight interviewer for Mad in America. Now, anyone who's heard my interviews will probably
0:27.7	know that I've been growing interested in the topic of industry corruption, especially in the
0:33.4	side disciplines and weirdly enough in emergency medicine. But for that matter, I'm actually
0:39.0	teaching a course in research explorations right now. So I'm really excited about our guest today.
0:45.2	Dr. Eric Turner, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science
0:50.4	University. He's also a senior scholar with OHSU's Center for Ethics in Healthcare.
0:56.0	Dr. Turner has been an FDA reviewer and has dedicated his work in life to improving research
1:02.0	transparency. He is especially known for his 2008 paper on publication bias in antidepressant trials.
1:10.0	And we will talk about that and a lot more
1:12.0	and his newer review, which was published just last year, I think.
1:16.1	Dr. Turner, welcome to Matt in America.
1:18.6	Thanks very much.
1:19.6	Thanks for having me.
1:20.7	All right, so before we jump into your research,
1:23.6	let me give our listeners and readers a little context and background. So let's go back a few years, right?
1:29.5	In 2008, you along with others conducted a review of antidepressant trials to check for
1:34.9	publication bias.
1:36.5	Now clinicians, researchers, and of course, most importantly, patients, service users.
1:42.4	They need drug trials that accurately and truthfully tell them whether
1:46.6	a drug works and also whether it has many adverse effects, like the question of efficacy and
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