Why most published research findings are still false

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INTRO: The US spends nearly 20% of its GDP on health and publishes 3 million biomedical papers a year. So why is life expectancy stalling, or perhaps even falling? Stanford professor of medicine John Ioannidis argues that vested interests and basic research mistakes are destroying biomedicine, and that two decades after his bombshell paper, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,” the situation has only worsened. AI is generating a new deluge of fraudulent research, and medicine is drifting ever further from quality evidence. In this interview with the IAI's Alasdair Craig, he lays bare the crisis, and suggests ways we might begin to fix it. (MORE - details)
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