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2025-08-25T15:34:00Z – Purificateurs d’air : la plupart des tests sont insuffisants pour évaluer leur efficacité ou leur innocuité

Les fabricants de purificateurs d’air affichent souvent des allégations ambitieuses quant à l’efficacité de leurs appareils. Cependant, des protocoles d’évaluation plus rigoureux sont nécessaires.
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2025-08-20T12:42:17Z – Most air cleaning devices have not been tested on people − and little is known about their potential harms, new study finds

Manufacturers often make bold claims about how well these technologies work. Better testing would allow consumers and institutions to pick the most effective ones.
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2024-05-01T20:05:12Z – We think we control our health – but corporations selling forever chemicals, fossil fuels and ultra-processed foods have a much greater role

Corporations have an incentive to make profits – even if their products hurt or even kill people. Here's how to stop history repeating.
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2022-08-19T00:09:41Z – Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a tool for rooting it out

Thank you for clarifying the question. Yes, systematic reviews can look for consistencies or inconsistencies across a body of evidence on a particular question. So, they do determine if results have…
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2022-08-18T22:51:48Z – Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a tool for rooting it out

The research study we report in this Conversation article give a list of questions that should be asked when considering whether to include a study in a systematic review. Answering some of these questions…
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2022-08-18T21:40:37Z – Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a tool for rooting it out

I agree, and even when journals do act it can take a very long time to get a study retracted, or a correction published. However, detecting fraudulent and flawed research in the context of doing a systematic…
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2022-08-18T12:39:23Z – Fake research can be harmful to your health – a new study offers a tool for rooting it out

A new screening tool to help study reviewers identify what's fake or shoddy in research may be on the horizon. And everyday people can apply some of the same critical analysis tools.
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2020-10-08T17:02:31Z – Canada’s COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force needs better transparency about potential conflicts of interest

With lives depending on a vaccine, trust in Canada's COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force is crucial. Members of the task force need to make any industry links or potential conflicts of interest publicly clear…
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2019-10-08T05:22:06Z – Riset yang mendapatkan dana dari industri mengaburkan kebenaran. Ini penjelasan ahli

Sebagian besar penelitian medis didanai oleh industri, Dan industri memberi tekanan pada peneliti, mulai dari membimbing pertanyaan penelitian hingga menekan temuan yang tidak menguntungkan.
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2019-10-02T20:04:45Z – When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes last

Most medical research is funded by industry, not public sources. And industry puts pressure on researchers in many ways, from guiding the research question to suppressing unfavourable findings.
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2019-02-04T19:21:00Z – Influential doctors aren't disclosing their drug company ties

Clinical guidelines have a big impact on the care you receive and the drugs you're prescribed. But one in five doctors who write these guidelines have undisclosed ties to drug companies.
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2017-07-03T04:26:20Z – Who's paying for lunch? Here's exactly how drug companies wine and dine our doctors

Drug companies funded more than 116,000 educational events for doctors over four years. Now you can find out exactly which companies footed the bills and how much they paid.
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2016-11-01T19:07:35Z – Essays on health: how food companies can sneak bias into scientific research

Food, drug and other companies often sponsor research in the hope it might produce results favourable to their products. How can we ensure such research remains independent?

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