in the pipeline

Today, Derek on "changing the goalposts" by fixing the "endpoints"!! So, as noted (actually yesterday), Derek writes rightly on the fun topic of changing the endpoint(s) expected of the drug you are testing on real people - not to fool real medical people or the FDA, but to mislead investors on...

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/11/13/our_most_snortedat_papers_this_month_.php has 3 lovely examples of left in things that should have been removed and one ripped off paper - all published in respectable journals and caught. Just go from Derek to the site he notes..............

OK, today Derek hits a pet peeve of his (and mine): papers and even whole journals that are made up of old body parts, a scrap of electricals and pure distilled fakery. That's another fine read you have gotten me into!!! Here 'tis...