David_Gerard comments on Professional Patients: Fraud that ruins studies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 January 2012 06:41:07PM *  3 points [-]

The research itself is full of bad incentives. Ben Goldacre has frequently suggested a database of all clinical trials, including failed ones. He has a raft of newspaper columns on the hows and whys of bad science in medicine. Professional patients are the very least of it.