Evidence Of Evidence-Based Problems

John Grohol, one of several psychologists manning the Psych Central blog, has an utterly brilliant post banging on peer-reviewed research in light of a study of biases reported in cancer research funded by Big Pharma.

"Some people believe that 'evidence-based medicine' is the answer. That if doctors simply followed what the evidence showed for a given illness or condition, some of these issues would disappear. The problem, as we are seeing, is that you can’t always trust the “evidence,” even when it appears in peer-reviewed journals (not to mention the negative evidence which never appears anywhere)."

And so on. It's great stuff and CL Psych has also gone off on the same topic.

I agree with Grohol that researchers and certain elements of human nature are a big part of the fix we are in with evidence base and treatments in the psych world. One of these days, peer-reviewed research will mean something again in the psych world. These days, it doesn't mean shit to me.