Episode 76: Listener's question - "Why do we only see positive results published?"

In today's episode, Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham answerers a listener's question "Why do we only see positive results published?"

Additional Information

• Publication bias: the problem that won't go away - Dickersin and Min (1993) Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences
• The importance of no evidence - Editorial Nature Human Behaviour (2019)
• When Scientists Find Nothing: The Value of Null Results - Inside Science (2020)
• Monday Science Episode 70 - COVID19 Retracted Papers
• Example of where studies have investigated the influence of publication bias and impact

- Suicide risk with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other new-generation antidepressants in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies [Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2021]

- Vitamin D and covid-19 [BMJ, 2021] - Rapid Responses

• BMC Psychology ‘results-free- peer-review' process
• PubPeer.com

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