{"id":21942,"date":"2019-02-16T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21942"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T01:11:33","slug":"the-elusive-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21942","title":{"rendered":"The Elusive Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Did you know that there was a shocking study published in the Public Library of Science Journal, that found \u201cup to 72%\u201d of scientists admitted their colleagues were engaged in \u201cquestionable research practices,\u201d and that just over 14% of them were engaged in outright \u201cfalsification\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that\u2019s not bad enough, between 1977 and 1990 the FDA found scientific flaws in 10\u201320% of all the studies they audited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it gets even worse; scientists at the Thousand Oaks biotech firm Amgen, set out to double-check the results of 53 peer reviewed landmark published studies in their fields of cancer research and blood biology. What they found was shocking; only 6 of the 53 studies could be proven valid. That means almost 90% were flawed, yet passed off to the public as fact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, there\u2019s a lot of scientific bullshit floating around my friends.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there was a shocking study published in the Public Library of Science Journal, that found \u201cup to 72%\u201d of scientists admitted their colleagues were engaged in \u201cquestionable research practices,\u201d and that just over 14% of them were engaged in outright \u201cfalsification\u201d.\u00a0 If that\u2019s not bad enough, between 1977 and 1990 the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=21942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Elusive Truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21943,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21942\/revisions\/21943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}