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Audio long read: Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?

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This chapter explores the issue of untrustworthy clinical trials in medicine, highlighting the work of anesthetist John Carlyle who discovered that 44% of the 500 studies he analyzed over three years contained flawed data. These flawed and unreliable trials, referred to as 'zombie trials,' expose potential data falsification or incompetence by the authors.

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