Medical distillery : How to eliminate evidence based falsehoods in medical literature ?

If science is considered as a journey towards truth,.. knowledge, data, and statistics are the key companions in this infinite voyage to the dreamy destination. While hundreds & thousands of scientists do travel in this turbulent road daily, pursuing their mundane work, there are very few researchers worried about the true purpose of their journey, the quality of the road they travel, the dangerous fault lines they create. It has become a taboo topic to criticize medical science even after realizing the fact that we are compelled to follow and glorify some of the best nonsense. Dr. Jhon Loannidhis Professor of statistics and public health from Stanford University is of a different genre. He became so popular after his landmark paper Loannidis JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. His lectures are so important to us. Physicians need to listen to his talks, infested with absolute truths, unpalatable though. Final message  It is my wish there is a need for a new specialty called quality assessment of published medical literature and knowledge distillery.   
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Uncategorized audit of medical science bioethics cleansing of medical literature Dr. Jhon Loannidhis ethics in medicine medical science distillery Source Type: blogs