Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Half right. | Comment Half right Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. E-mail petsko@ Published 30 September 2005 Genome Biology 2005 6 120 doi gb-2005-6-l0-l20 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2005 6 l0 l20 2005 BioMed Central Ltd There s a wonderful moment in the equally wonderful 1973 film Sleeper in which doctors in the year 2173 are discussing their new patient Miles Monroe played by the film s director Woody Allen who has just been awakened like Rip van Winkle from a 200-year hibernation the result of a botched operation . This morning says one of the physicians of the future for breakfast uh he requested something called wheat germ organic honey and tiger s milk. To which another doctor remarks Oh yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life preserving properties. You mean says the first doctor there was no deep fat No steak or cream pies or hot fudge Those were thought to be unhealthy replies the other precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true. Woody Allen would not be surprised at a thesis put forward by John Ioannidis a Professor of Epidemiology who divides his time between University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece and Tufts University in the US and neither I suspect would most Americans today. In an Essay just published in the Public Library of Science s journal PLoS Medicine entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False PLoS Medicine 2005 2 e124 loannidis asserts that there is increasing concern that in modern research false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims. However this should not be surprising. It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false. He goes on to give a few reasons why arguing that claimed research findings may often simply reflect the .
