Truths, lies, and statistics

Truths, lies, and statistics – free full-text article /PMC5723807/ – Oct 2017

I’ve long noticed that research on pain and opioids has become ridiculously biased to support the “opioids are evil” narrative, measuring milligrams of opioid instead of patient outcomes. (See Opioids Blamed for Side-Effects of Chronic Pain)

While there is evidence of ongoing research misconduct in all it’s forms, it is challenging to identify the actual occurrence of research misconduct, which is especially true for misconduct in clinical trials.

Research misconduct is challenging to measure and there are few studies reporting the prevalence or underlying causes of research misconduct among biomedical researchers.