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Is the Peer Review Journal Dead?

28 Giu

Una disamina realistica e crudele sullo stato attuale della stampa e della ricerca in ambito medico.

Tony Brown, editore di Emergency Medicine Australasia, dipinge un quadro devastante sulla qualità delle riviste mediche, evidenziando in modo sistematico una serie di problemi che non possiamo fare finta di non vedere. Questo podcast vi farà cambiare atteggiamento nei confronti di molte delle fonti che giornalmente costruiscono la nostra base culturale. Aumenterà sicuramente la consapevole autodifesa contro articoli faziosi e di poca consistenza scientifica.

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Highlights Transcript:

Peer review dosen’t work
- Peer review: “Slow, expensive, ineffective, a lottery, biased, incapable of detecting fraud and prone to abuse” Smith R. BMJ 2004;329:242-4
Most papers are rubbish
- Few trials are valid and relevant ( 1% – 7% ) Haynes RB. ACP J Club 1993;119:A22-A23 Scott I, Glaziou P. Med J Aust 2012;197:374-8
Research hijacked (from Big Pharma)
- Big Pharma owns and control the data
- Big Pharma control what is published or not
Restricted full-text access
- $24 billion biomedical publishing industry
- Most of them are waste of money
- Positive studies are most likely been published, so authors try hard to make positive conclusions trough subanalysys of small groups invalidating all data
- Negative studies are most likely to be rigorous and well conducted
What are the alternatives?
- Release ALL data and information
- Publish negative trials
- Focus on the reader
- Post publication review, ‘Publish then filter’
- Rating systems / Web 2.0 tools / crowdsourcing
Is the Peer Review Journal Dead? Not yet – but smelling badly !
- Return the focus back onto the reader
- Expect and embrace all forms of post publication review
- Focus on education / translation

Must read books:

Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre (Google Books)
Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime by Peter Gotzcshe (Google Books)
The Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us by Marcia Angell (Google Books)

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Is the Peer Review Journal Dead?

Una disamina realistica e crudele sullo stato attuale della stampa e della ricerca in ambito medico.

Ascoltate l’audio, leggete le slide. In calce al post gli highlights della presentazione. Sono in lingua originale per evitare di perdere con la traduzione la vera natura dei concetti.

Highlights Transcript:

Peer review dosen’t work

Peer review: “Slow, expensive, ineffective, a lottery, biased, incapable of detecting fraud and prone to abuse” Smith R. BMJ 2004;329:242-4

Most papers are rubbish

Few trials are valid and relevant ( 1% – 7% ) Haynes RB. ACP J Club 1993;119:A22-A23 Scott I, Glaziou P. Med J Aust 2012;197:374-8

Research hijacked (from Big Pharma)

Big Pharma owns and control the data

Big Pharma control what is published or not

Restricted full-text access

$24 billion biomedical publishing industry

Most of them are waste of money

Positive studies are most likely been published, so authors try hard to make positive conclusions trough subanalysys of small groups invalidating all data

Negative studies are most likely to be rigorous and well conducted

What are the alternatives?

Release ALL data and information

Publish negative trials

Focus on the reader

Post publication review, ‘Publish then filter’

Rating systems / Web 2.0 tools / crowdsourcing

Is the Peer Review Journal Dead? Not yet – but smelling badly !

Return the focus back onto the reader

Expect and embrace all forms of post publication review

Focus on education / translation

Must read books:

Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre (Google Books)

Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime by Peter Gotzcshe (Google Books)

The Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us by Marcia Angell (Google Books)

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