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269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

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The All Trials Campaign - A Global Campaign to Stop This Problem From Happening

The all trials campaign is a global campaign to try and stop this problem from happening. We set up something called the all trials campaign a couple of years ago. So you public post on a publicly accessible register the fact that you've started a trial, beause that means we know which trials are happening. The all trials campaign also urges the publication of what's called a clinical study report. A clinical study report is a very long, very detailed document, hundreds, sometimes thousands of pages long. It describes in great detail the design the study and the results of the study. And that's really important, because often a trial can be floored by design in a way that is sufficiently technical that

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