Re: "Statins caused my kidney failure"

From: Robert (Robert_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:38:22 -0700

"Herman Rubin" <hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu> wrote in message
news:ccriap$qa6@odds.stat.purdue.edu...
> In article <J6EHc.13807$yy1.4318@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
> George Conklin <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >"Robert" <Robert@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:10etv2ht07l5g93@corp.supernews.com...
>
> >> "George Conklin" <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> >> news:6JvHc.7971$sD4.715@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>
> >> > "Herman Rubin" <hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu> wrote in message
> >> > news:ccl0n2$2c5q@odds.stat.purdue.edu...
> >> > > In article <25e68f26.0407070733.41be7349@posting.google.com>,
> >> > > Pete C. <peterc_7@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ........................
>
> > Medical journals do not want negative results. Herman is right. If
> >anyone does a large study and finds no effect, they blame the study. It
may
> >be the correct result, but they still will not publish it.
>
> It is not just medical journals, but journals in general.
> Of what use is it that an experiment did not turn up a
> "significant" result? BTW, this can even be a positive
> result, if it is expected. Nobody would publish a paper
> just showing that most people receive relief from headaches
> by taking aspirin.
>
> My first encounter with this was when a physicist asked me
> why published data gave a 15% effect when theory could not
> get more than 10%. Even though the effect was there, most
> experiments giving insignificant results were not published.
>

With the money you guys get selling T-shirts you can use it to pay the
researchers to publish insignificant results. I think that is a great idea.
Good idea Herman thanks.

>
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> are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
> Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
> hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558

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