Inaccurate Research-based Studies

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Is most published studies wrong or at least inaccurate? This is a question worth answering as it brings up how most studies are funded and how financial aid brings bias to studies. Industry-funded studies are usually biased because the study supports the interest of study's financial sponsor. This is extremely unethical due to the fact that people will believe what is supported in the research and; thus, this might change consumer behavior.

Non-industry-funded studies are the ones more accurate and have less biased conclusions as the sponsors have no involvement in the research design, conduct and analysis. Funding-bias makes people eat more unhealthy food and take unnecessary medicine as this will make the food and pharmaceutical companies more lucrative. However, in the long run, some of the these companies might not survive due to their notorious reputation, unless they murder/assassinate the activists who spread the truth about the business model these companies follow. This has been occurring several times in different nations.

Egg and milk companies recommend eating at least one egg per day or drinking one full glass of milk every day to get sufficient amount of nutrition for the day. Here is a link to a video by Dr. Neal Barnard who talks about these companies that harm the public health by making cholesterol look less harmful: https://www.pcrm.org/nbBlog/how-egg-industry-funded-studies-harm-public-health

Biases in studies happen as some scientists lack statistical knowledge or at least misuse statistics to publish positive results from their perspective by trying to find statistical significance. This leads to unreliable results and potentially makes people believe what should not be believed.

Reference:

https://www.foodpolitics.com/tag/sponsored-research/

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12016710/science-challeges-research-funding-peer-review-process