[edgyquant]

Yep. After years of pushing back against claims that researchers skewed scientific results to fit their agenda this is a huge, demoralizing blow. Even if it isn’t widespread, how can you honestly blame anyone for being skeptical anymore.

[strangattractor]

Wide spread? PI's are required to publish. It is impossible to maintain quality of papers via peer review at scale so bad papers usually get through simply because of the volume. Throw in a profit motive and people get creative about hiding it.

See this recently published article https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w.

One would think that clinical trials would be documented and scrutinized out the yin-yang but they are not.