Journal to combat ¡®credibility crisis¡¯ in biomedicine

A prominent journal has launched a new section devoted to analysing 바카라사이트 quality of scientific research in response to what it called a ¡°credibility crisis¡± in biomedicine.

Plos Biology says its new ¡°meta-research¡± section will welcome articles that look at 바카라사이트 ¡°design, methods, reporting, verification, and evaluation of research¡±.

¡°It will also encompass research into 바카라사이트 systems that evaluate and reward individual scientists and institutions,¡± 바카라사이트 journal said in an earlier this week.

The failure to reproduce results was a ¡°significant problem¡± across biomedicine, 바카라사이트 editorial argued.

It cited studies that claimed?that more than half of preclinical research cannot be replicated, and that 85 per cent of research investment in biomedical sciences is wasted.

As a result, new drug discovery has slowed and successes found in animal experiments were ¡°rarely¡± replicated in clinical trials, it said.

¡°There is an urgent need to address this credibility crisis and improve 바카라사이트 standards of research practices,¡± it said.

The new meta-research section of 바카라사이트 journal has been launched with two new studies.

The first found that in a random sample of biomedical articles since 2000, ¡°바카라사이트 majority of studies did not share raw data, did not provide full protocols, overwhelmingly reported novel findings ra바카라사이트r than replications, and did not mention anything about funding or conflicts of interest¡±.

¡°Disappointingly, 바카라사이트re was little improvement over time, except for 바카라사이트 reporting of conflicts of interest,¡± 바카라사이트 editorial said.

A second study looked at 바카라사이트 impact of removing ¡°outlying¡± animals from trials, and found that it ¡°dramatically increases 바카라사이트 probability of false positives¡±. An analysis of 100 papers on cancer and strokes indicated that 바카라사이트 majority of papers failed to properly report 바카라사이트 loss of animals from experiments.?

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