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Health researchers report funder pressure to suppress results – Nature

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 18 August 2021

Government agencies such as health departments might be more inclined to intervene if findings from a study they commissioned are not as expected or if they are heavily invested in the health intervention — such as an education or health programme — being trialled, she adds.

A 2016 inquiry into the delayed publication of research commissioned by UK government agencies identified cases in which publication was “manipulated to fit with political concerns”. More recently, the British Medical Journal reported four instances of politicization and suppression of science in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic.

http://archive.today/2021.08.20-134039/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02242-x

Tags AllTrials Campaign, BMJ, COVID-19, Fraud, Government, Manipulation, Medical Research, Nature, Pharmaceutical Industry, PLOS ONE, Politics, Public Health, Research, Suppression, University of Edinburgh, University of South Australia

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Stillbirth rate rises dramatically during pandemic – Nature

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 16 September 2020

A slew of studies from around the world has reported a disturbing trend: since the coronavirus pandemic started, there has been a significant rise in the proportion of pregnancies ending in stillbirths, in which babies die in the womb. Researchers say that in some countries, pregnant women have received less care than they need because of lockdown restrictions and disruptions to health care. As a result, complications that can lead to stillbirths were probably missed, they say.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02618-5

Tags Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Health, Nature, Pregnant, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Stillbirth, University of South Australia