Funders and regulators have the principal power to implement most of the solutions needed to reduce research waste […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Funders and regulators are more important than journals in fixing the waste in research
Category: Iain Chalmers
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Can it really be true that 50% of research is unpublished?
Whatever the precise non-publication rate is, it is a serious waste of the roughly $180 billion annually invested in health and medical research globally […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Ill informed replications will increase our avoidable waste of research
How does the replicability crisis relate to the estimated 85% waste in medical research? […]
Iain Chalmers: Should the Cochrane logo be accompanied by a health warning?
The birth of the Cochrane logo Twenty four summers ago I asked David Mostyn to design a logo to illustrate the objectives of the soon-to-be-opened Cochrane Centre. He did a good job: the circle reflects global objectives and international collaboration; the mirror image “Cs” stood for the Cochrane Centre (and, a year later, the Cochrane […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Is 85% of health research really “wasted”?
Our estimate that 85% of all health research is being avoidably “wasted” [Chalmers & Glasziou, 2009] commonly elicits disbelief. Our own first reaction was similar: “that can’t be right?” Not only did 85% sound too much, but given that $200 billion per year is spent globally on health and medical research, it implied an annual […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: How systematic reviews can reduce waste in research
If you asked a member of the public “Should researchers review relevant, existing research systematically before embarking on further research?” they would probably be puzzled. Why would you ask a question with such an obvious answer? But in the current research system, researchers are only rarely required by research funders and regulators to do this. […]