Skip navigation.
... Midlife Improvement

Search LifeTwo:

Get Our Newsletter!

Stay up to date on midlife issues -- subscribe to our monthly email newsletter (you can easily unsubscribe later)!

Email address:

Visit Our Store!

Visit our store at Amazon to see books and other products we recommend -- like this:

Your LifeTwo

In this area, registered users see recommendations, set bookmarks, and track what their buddies are up to. For more on the benefits of registering, go here.

User login

Subscribe in a Reader:

XML feed

Use the icon above to subscribe to LifeTwo's Home Page in a reader like My Yahoo or Google Reader (see this page to learn more about RSS and for information on our other feeds). Or if you use one of the following services, just click on its icon:

Add to Google

Add to My Yahoo!

Add to My AOL


New On LifeTwo's Homepage

Recent Discussions

Netflix, Inc.

Research bias that might be bad for your health

Wesley's picture

If you read enough studies on health you start coming across conflicting results and recommendations. Sometimes the results are directly at odds with each other. How does this happen? One reason is that some studies are funded by industries sources with a vested interest in a particular outcome.

The Public Library of Science online journal PLoS Medicine reviewed 111 studies and found that studies funded entirely by industry were four to eight ties more likely to be favorable to th financial interest of the sponsors than those paid by other groups.

This doesn't mean they are wrong but it does mean that you need to factor in the source of the funding into the evaluation particularly if the results contradict other studies that were not funded by industry special interests.

0
 
 

Post new comment

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <b> <i> <u> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <p> <hr> <blockquote> <table> <tr> <td> <!--break-->
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.