Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong - Newsweek

Newsweek article:  Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong - Newsweek

"Yet even if biomedical research can be a fickle guide, we rely on it.

But what if wrong answers aren’t the exception but the rule? More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now making that claim. It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed, they charge. Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a system that leads patients and physicians astray—spurring often costly regimens that won’t help and may even harm you.  It’s a disturbing view, with huge implications for doctors, policymakers, and health-conscious consumers"

          Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis

Med Science - "90 percent" are flawed ie. published medical reports

...from the article "Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science" - Magazine - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/

"..........central to Ioannidis’s career. He’s what’s known as a meta-researcher, and he’s become one of the world’s foremost experts on the credibility of medical research.

He and his team have shown, again and again, and in many different ways, that much of what biomedical researchers conclude in published studies—conclusions that doctors keep in mind when they prescribe antibiotics or blood-pressure medication, or when they advise us to consume more fiber or less meat, or when they recommend surgery for heart disease or back pain—is misleading, exaggerated, and often flat-out wrong. He charges that as much as 90 percent of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed.

His work has been widely accepted by the medical community; it has been published in the field’s top journals, where it is heavily cited; and he is a big draw at conferences. Given this exposure, and the fact that his work broadly targets everyone else’s work in medicine, as well as everything that physicians do and all the health advice we get, Ioannidis may be one of the most influential scientists alive. Yet for all his influence, he worries that the field of medical research is so pervasively flawed, and so riddled with conflicts of interest, that it might be chronically resistant to change—or even to publicly admitting that there’s a problem"

detailed response to article:  http://www.stat.umn.edu/~sandy/courses/8801/articles/IOANNIDIS/goodmangreenland.pdf

response to response to article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1896210/

other:

Atlantic: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science | e-Patients.net

3quarksdaily: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

Houston's Clear Thinkers: Lies, Damned Lies and Medical Science

Sandwalk: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

Alliance for Human Research Protection - Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science | COTO Report