{"id":6399,"date":"2017-04-08T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2017-04-06T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:21:16","slug":"how-flawed-science-is-undermining-good-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6399","title":{"rendered":"How Flawed Science Is Undermining Good Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Greene for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>A surprising medical finding caught the eye of NPR&#8217;s veteran science correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100631\/richard-harris\">Richard Harris<\/a> in 2014. A scientist from the drug company Amgen had reviewed the results of 53 studies that were originally thought to be highly promising \u2014 findings likely to lead to important new drugs. But when the Amgen scientist tried to replicate those promising results, in most cases he couldn&#8217;t. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/04\/06\/522262881\/how-flawed-science-is-undermining-good-medicine?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=50067027&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_uX0geagDiVqHKSXmJjeJXsaO3tu_JYpBj0tCY5F4ahCq_Aus-4cJmgd9tRAFxqH6zuHG-2fLao0n84TqgGIvy3QupNA&amp;_hsmi=50067027\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"NPR logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Greene for NPR) A surprising medical finding caught the eye of NPR&#8217;s veteran science correspondent Richard Harris in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}