PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ben Goldacre, Henrietta Lacks, George Otto Gey
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Meta analysis: pharmacological vs. clinical studies, best way to summarize research literature, how big is the effect. Publication bias: ben goldacre ted talk, two causes, 1. Tendency of researchers to only publish studies with significant results: 2. Tendency for journal editors (cid:523)allow to be published or not(cid:524) don"t like to publish studies that are not significant (cid:523)don"t like to publish things with no: 3. Actively suppress the data (not what i want to find, so ) don"t publish it(cid:524) Lack"s cells were still (cid:498)alive(cid:499): the lacks family did not have access to health care, poor, black family nearly destitute. Reflections: hela: what are the ethical issues, consent. Individual benefit vs. societal benefit: family suffered with no health care, confidentiality, name became known afterwards, commercialization, people profited off her rather than the person to the cells they. In 2002, 32, 871 cases of syphilis (432 congenital: men to women ratio: 3. 5 to 1.