Point of View: Four erroneous beliefs thwarting more trustworthy research
- University of California, Davis, United States
- McGill University, Canada
- Independent researcher, France
Abstract
A range of problems currently undermines public trust in biomedical research. We discuss four erroneous beliefs that may prevent the biomedical research community from recognizing the need to focus on deserving this trust, and thus which act as powerful barriers to necessary improvements in the research process.
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- Emma Pewsey, eLife, United Kingdom
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- Received: January 17, 2019
- Accepted: July 25, 2019
- Accepted Manuscript published: July 29, 2019 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: August 9, 2019 (version 2)
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© 2019, Yarborough et al.
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Point of View: Four erroneous beliefs thwarting more trustworthy research
eLife 8:e45261.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45261
