@starfishgurl1984
I absolutely love this video! Learning about bias and flawed research etc. was one of my favorite subjects to study in college classes and I’m so glad someone’s openly talking about it in the current scientific community, always striving to do better and be more ethical will definitely help push us forwards towards progress!
@Isabelles1234
What’s truly crazy is, once you read Rethinking Health Secrets you realize how blinded you were, but it’s never too late. That book has some serious knowledge
@DirectCross
Charles is such a clear thinker and communicator. This was a great interview.
@JohnCordrayLPC
Thank you for shining the light on this, Dr. Mike! It’s so important to address this.
@oncall-medicine
This is exactly why patients need to be armed with knowledge! As a physician, I see firsthand how industry influence can muddy the waters of medical research. It's not about rejecting science, it’s about demanding better science. We need transparency, accountability, and critical thinking.
@laurenspiridigliozzi1272
Dr Mike, thank you for doing this video. I hope exposing corruption in the medical industry will lead to changes. I'm tired of not knowing who to trust with my health!!
@PatsyLill
Fantastic interview covering a worry of mine. And the articles written by the big boys are not as carefully reviewed as from the average or beginning researchers. Or the MSM grabs onto a preprint and goes crazy with it. As a retired scientist this really worries me.
@naureenmehmood6955
Doctor Mike I recently recovered from pneumonia thanks to you’re videos I was kept entertained
@pospsycher5908
I see this so often in Psychology and Neuroscience. Granted I am only a 2nd year undergraduate, I am starting to realize how many concepts and ideas we don’t have any studies on. We also are often looked to for answers we cannot give. All the experts I know will say what they know about the topic, what different perspectives there are, but that we don’t have the answer. We have ideas of the answer, but there is no comprehensive answer, every patient is a new instance of finding out what works and what variables play significant roles.
@therabbithat
Scott Carney interviewed a citizen scientist who has got dozens of papers retracted by investigating their images and data himself, as a hobby. It's great!
@LooneyB
When companies can profit from disasters you’ll see more disasters and less trust in the system!
@thethirdtime9168
as a sprouting scientist (hopefully) this is a wonderful and refreshing video. Science is a self-correcting entity, but the current state of things is abhorrent and I despise the fraud and misuse that currently perpetuate the 'market'
@Minyassa
I think a very large part of the overall loss of trust in science is a lack of updated education about scientific basics. We have people quoting 1960s textbooks as if those primitive building blocks are the end-all of scientific fact; Quora is full of hundreds of thousands of examples of this, and these people are very serious and fully believe that they were taught factual data. This makes people extremely vulnerable to political manipulation by politicians who are either just as ignorant to modern facts, or deliberately misrepresenting them for their own purposes.
@alenabudiman694
Great episode. Off the topic, but would you consider doing an episode on mTBI and post-concussion syndrome? I’ve found that a number of doctors do not understand it well. And the general public also lack understanding on this invisible but difficult disability. And it can be multi-symptomatic: vestibular, visual, cognitive, and more.
@wordsrwind22
As a scientist, thank you for providing a platform for this discussion.
@FunderDuck
Depending on the field, a lot of scientific and medical research has financial and other incentives which can not only influence how a study is conducted, but which studies get funded in the first place. It’s been this way for many decades, and since a lot of science is built on the efforts of previous researchers and studies, it’s resulted in a sometimes confusing and conflicted landscape. Mix in the accessibility of information from the Internet, and it’s also led to increased skepticism around the methods and intentions of even highly reputable institutions. I wish none of that was true, and even if that assessment is off, it’s a very common perception. Academic ethics, transparency, and trust need to be restored, which will take a substantial effort from the academic community as a whole.
@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish
Just as Mike says doctors need to be more comfortable with saying, "I don't know," so too should research scientists and advisors. Research scientists also need to be able to say, "we were wrong," or "the hypothesis failed."
@caileightomas9501
This is such an insightful interview! Charles Piller is a wonderful thinker.
@RandalJaffe
Ethic training is a part of many graduate programs. One of the points of emphasis we made was if you are found to have falsified data you career is over. And if you have falsified data in an important area you will be found out. If you are working in an unimportant area you career is not impacted by another unimportant study. The other point is that peer review is done by busy scientists. One of the key points is that you must assume the data are not fake. It takes long enough to fit reviews into your busy schedule.
@saepelaudat