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Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions, Richard Harris

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"American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research. By some estimates, half of the results from these studies can't be replicated elsewhere-the science is simply wrong. Often, research institutes and academia emphasize publishing results over getting the right answers, incentivizing poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death sentence. How are those with breast cancer helped when the cell on which 900 papers are based turns out not to be a breast cancer cell at all? How effective could a new treatment for ALS be when it failed to cure even the mice it was initially tested on? In Rigor Mortis, award-winning science journalist Richard F. Harris reveals these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with the nation's top biomedical researchers. We need to fix our dysfunctional biomedical system-now"--
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eng
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  • Begley's bombshell
  • It's hard even on the good days
  • A bucket of cold water
  • Misled by mice
  • Trusting the untrustworthy
  • Jumping to conclusions
  • Show your work
  • A broken culture
  • The challenge of precision medicine
  • Inventing a discipline
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
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9780465097913
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Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions
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Rigor mortis
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how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions
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Richard Harris
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eng
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"American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research. By some estimates, half of the results from these studies can't be replicated elsewhere-the science is simply wrong. Often, research institutes and academia emphasize publishing results over getting the right answers, incentivizing poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death sentence. How are those with breast cancer helped when the cell on which 900 papers are based turns out not to be a breast cancer cell at all? How effective could a new treatment for ALS be when it failed to cure even the mice it was initially tested on? In Rigor Mortis, award-winning science journalist Richard F. Harris reveals these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with the nation's top biomedical researchers. We need to fix our dysfunctional biomedical system-now"--
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An award-winning science journalist describes, through anecdotes, personal stories, and interviews with top biomedical researchers, how the dysfunction and waste in much of today’s scientific research is holding back progress and hurting people with improper methods, poor design and sloppy statistics
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610.72
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index present
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non fiction
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how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions
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Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions, Richard Harris
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
Begley's bombshell -- It's hard even on the good days -- A bucket of cold water -- Misled by mice -- Trusting the untrustworthy -- Jumping to conclusions -- Show your work -- A broken culture -- The challenge of precision medicine -- Inventing a discipline -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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1 online resource
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online
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9780465097913
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2017005631
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80EDC68A-EF20-497F-85F1-1FE1C72A0ED6
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(OCoLC)971615744
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Rigor mortis : how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope, and wastes billions, Richard Harris
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Publication
Note
OverDrive eBook
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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txt
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Contents
Begley's bombshell -- It's hard even on the good days -- A bucket of cold water -- Misled by mice -- Trusting the untrustworthy -- Jumping to conclusions -- Show your work -- A broken culture -- The challenge of precision medicine -- Inventing a discipline -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
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1 online resource
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online
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9780465097913
Lccn
2017005631
Media category
computer
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rdamedia
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n
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
80EDC68A-EF20-497F-85F1-1FE1C72A0ED6
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(OCoLC)971615744

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