Rigor Mortis : : how Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
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"American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research. By some estimates, half of the results from these studies can't be replicated elsewhere-the science is simply wrong. Often, research institutes and academia emphasize publishing results over getting the right answers, incentivizing poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death sentence. How are those with breast cancer helped when the cell on which 900 papers are based turns out not to be a breast cancer cell at all? How effective could a new treatment for ALS be when it failed to cure even the mice it was initially tested on? In Rigor Mortis, award-winning science journalist Richard F. Harris reveals these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with the nation's top biomedical researchers. We need to fix our dysfunctional biomedical system-now"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: vii, 278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465097906
0465097901
SUBJECTS
Medicine -- Methodology.
Medical ethics.