As I said, this is a question we can actually answer. Risk of bias is a somewhat subjective assessment, but even so we can compute it for different trials and see which ones are better or worse
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So ultimately, saying "the industry funded this trial" doesn't necessarily mean much in terms of its quality What it does say is that you should be looking for more research overall because there may be unpublished work contradicting the findings
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Or they tend to study good bets in the first place, and or have higher subject numbers as they can fund multicentre trials
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Oh yes, it's all about controlling the narrative, rather than individually bad trials, because bad trials don't convince governments or doctors (usually)
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