Department of Medicine

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

Written by Nature | July 18, 2023

In a 2021 editorial introducing the idea of trustworthiness screening, Lisa Bero, a senior research integrity editor at Cochrane, and a bioethicist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, pointed out that there was no validated, universally agreed method.