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Isn't what AllTrials[1] is doing a much better way of fixing medical science?

[1]: http://www.alltrials.net/find-out-more/all-trials/

These are different goals.

All trials is about not hiding when you have done a trial that doesn't produce your desired result. (Publication Bias) COMPare is about being transparent if you change the purpose of your trial while it's happening. (Outcome switching)

Both problems can be countered by good preregistering practice. And both are important issues that need to be fixed. (And by the way: not only in medicine. This is a problem that is widely a problem in science.)

Oh hmm, I thought you had to pre-register your purpose with AllTrials as well. Too bad, they could have killed two birds with one stone.

Both of these projects are from Ben Goldacre (not singularly, but he has a big part in both).

COMPare is a continuation as far as I understand it, because now that all trials are registered and should follow those standards, abuse is still happening in the way COMPare points out.

Are all trials registered? Was AllTrials that successful? That would be extremely good news.

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