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Originally Posted by Dion
Selective publication of trial results.
A recent federal study of 315 published clinical trials of 29 antidepressant drugs noted that every one which identified a sponsor came from a drug company. While the FDA requires companies to submit failed trials, reports of drugs with no effect seldom make it to the medical journals.
For example, one published trial of Serzone with a marginal result matches the FDA records. But an identical trial with no measurable drug effect did not get published, according to the federal study. How many drug companies are going to publish a study that makes their drug look bad?
http://thomasjmoore.com/pages/prozpop.html
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This same stuff can be said about any peer reviewed journals for any science. There is no such thing as the journal of unpublished results. You don't publish stuff that didn't work, period.