I often find discussion about industry funding in research very frustrating Industry funding doesn't necessarily mean a study is bad: a thread
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The basic assumption is this: companies fund research to prove that their products work. This is fairly obvious. No money in showing that your product is useless!
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This leads to all sorts of potential conflicts of interest.
@bengoldacre covers the various ways in which pharmaceutical companies can/do mislead in their research in his book Bad Pharma1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
And we see this fairly easily. There is a lot of research demonstrating that industry-funded studies are more likely to give positive resultspic.twitter.com/4WqKHzWxgQ
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BUT Here's where it gets tricky Numerous systematic reviews have also identified a key problem: industry-funded trials are just as good IF NOT BETTER than non-industry funded trialspic.twitter.com/dAENRM9xek
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Got it in one
that's the rest of the thread!
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