Publication bias

A campaign by researchers has shown that Roche spun the research on Tamiflu to meet their commercial ends.

AllTrials aims to correct the situation in which studies remain unpublished or are published but with selective reporting of outcomes.

“Big data” is large-scale data processing technologies intended to generate insights into performance, behaviour and trends.

Iain Chalmers talks about failings in scientific research that lead to avoidable harm to patients and waste of resources.

Ben Goldacre’s lecture at TEDglobal, in which he describes how pharmaceutical companies harm patients by failing to report negative outcomes.