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by strangattractor 1072 days ago
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.