###Biotech and Big Pharma loose confidence in academics
###Biotech and Big Pharma lose confidence in academics
Drug companies face this probem all the time. They read about cutting-edge discoveries being made in academic labs, but when they try to reproduce the experiments, they can’t. Scientists at a German pharmaceutical company who tried to reproduce the results in 67 published studies told the readers of Nature that they only succeeded one quarter of the time. Likewise, the American company Amgen found they could only replicate the results for 6 out of 53 published cancer studies.
### Unrelated data panels / missing references / incorrect controls
=> big classic
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### Pseudo replicates
Failure to understand the difference between technical and biological replicates =
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### Underpowered studies = Small effect sizes
There may be an significant difference between 2 experimental groups but the study is underpowered and the conclusion indicate an absence of difference ...
Example Garcia 1 dog...
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### Data handling
* Interim data analysis
* Ad hoc exclusion of data
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### Misusage and Over-interpretation of statistical tests
Nuzzo, R (2014). *Scientific method: Statistical errors*. Nature 506: 150–152.
Nuzzo, R (2014). *Scientific method: Statistical errors* Nature 506: 150–152.
Halsey, LG, et al (2015). *The fickle P value generates irreproducible results* Nature Methods 12: 179–185.
###Biotech and Big Pharma loose confidence in academics
###Biotech and Big Pharma lose confidence in academics
Drug companies face this probem all the time. They read about cutting-edge discoveries being made in academic labs, but when they try to reproduce the experiments, they can’t. Scientists at a German pharmaceutical company who tried to reproduce the results in 67 published studies told the readers of Nature that they only succeeded one quarter of the time. Likewise, the American company Amgen found they could only replicate the results for 6 out of 53 published cancer studies.
### Unrelated data panels / missing references / incorrect controls
=> big classic
%% Cell type:markdown id: tags:
### Pseudo replicates
Failure to understand the difference between technical and biological replicates =
%% Cell type:markdown id: tags:
### Underpowered studies = Small effect sizes
There may be an significant difference between 2 experimental groups but the study is underpowered and the conclusion indicate an absence of difference ...
Example Garcia 1 dog...
%% Cell type:markdown id: tags:
### Data handling
* Interim data analysis
* Ad hoc exclusion of data
%% Cell type:markdown id: tags:
### Misusage and Over-interpretation of statistical tests
Nuzzo, R (2014). *Scientific method: Statistical errors*. Nature 506: 150–152.
Nuzzo, R (2014). *Scientific method: Statistical errors* Nature 506: 150–152.
Halsey, LG, et al (2015). *The fickle P value generates irreproducible results* Nature Methods 12: 179–185.