A Dirty Little Secret
by Joćo Medeiros
A review from Seed Magazine of the evidence that most published research findings could actually be false and the case for reform.

Lies, all lies. But who do you tell?
by Anjana Ahuja
Times science columnist, Anjana Ahuja reports a clumsy fraud in a Lancet paper claiming that a certain class of painkillers cut the risk of oral cancer. Fraudulent scientists are thought to comprise a small minority. However, Anjana Ahuja finds that 'outing' unscrupulous colleagues is neither simple nor risk-free.

Corporate Skepticism: Tuning Doubt into Dollars
by Ted Dace
big business peddles its own brand of rigid, unreflective skepticism. Indeed, corporate and ideological skepticism are as tightly coupled as paired threads of DNA. In both cases, when the evidence fails to verify predetermined belief, “interest in scientific proof” goes out the window.

Drug Trials Favour the Company Funding the Study
Shankar Vedantam, staff writer on the Washington Post suggests that the way for a Company to ensure a favourable result from trials of its schizophrenia drug is to pay for the study

Medical Journals are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies
Dr Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, analyses the relationship between the Medical Journals and the Pharmaceutical Industry and the disastrous loss of credibility resulting. Dr Smith suggests ways of dealing with a critical situation.

German health experts 'paid by tobacco firms'
According to German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, leading German public health experts who played down the dangers of cigarettes have been secretly financed for years by the tobacco industry.

Declaring an Interest
A recent article produces further examples of scientists signing articles which have been ghostwritten on behalf of interest groups. Of equal concern is the growing tendancy to conceal conflicts of interest.

Lies, Damned Lies and Sloppy Statistics
A study of articles published in top science and medical journals shows that a large proportion contain statistical errors. Apart from typographical errors, these are primarily caused by the incorrect rounding of figures. In some cases, errors caused false conclusions to be published.

Science for Sale
We show how the lure of profits corrupts biomedical research

How Objective is Britain's Royal Society?
Traces the connections between members of the Royal Society and the bio-tech industry, and their attempts to discredit the research of Dr Arpad Pusztai which showed adverse effects on rats from GM potatoes.

'Ghosts' Still Haunt the Medical Journals
In a sequel to our Flawed Evidence article (see below) we find evidence that up to 50% of articles in Medical Journals are commissioned by drug companies and written by ghostwriters, not by the doctors to whom they are attributed.

Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Skepticism
      by Rochus Boerner

The Objectivity of Science - The Traditional View
      Does it Stand Examination?

Who Runs WHO Food Policy?
      Has the Food Industry Infiltrated the World Health Organisation?

Could Experimenter Effects Occur in the Physical and Biological Sciences?
     Rupert Sheldrake
            Published in The Skeptical Inquirer, May/June 1998

Flawed Evidence
      Doctors "author" drug company articles without seeing the raw data

The Rise and Fall of the Peppered Moth
      How the Cornerstone of Darwinian Natural Selection Crumbled

Cooking the Results
      Recent Cases of Misconduct in Mainstream Science

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