Finansieringskällor styr forskningsresultat visar en studie (vem finansierade den studien?) enligt en artikel i Washington Post.
[via the bioethics web log.]
Of the 42 reports identified by the authors, 33 were sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. In 90.0% of the studies, the reported overall outcome was in favor of the sponsors drug. This pattern resulted in contradictory conclusions across studies when the findings of studies of the same drugs but with different sponsors were compared.
Läs mer i paprets abstract.
Man har hört det förut. Till exempel av Als-Nielsen et.al., ”Association of funding and conclusions in randomized drug trials”, JAMA vol 290 no 7 (2003).