Why do we only see positive results published?

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In today's episode, Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham answerers a listener's question "Why do we only see positive results published?" Additional Information <ul> <li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8192291/" target="_blank">Publication bias: the problem that won't go away</a> - Dickersin and Min (1993) Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences</li> <li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0569-7#:~:text=Publication%20bias%20threatens%20the%20ability,offer%20incentives%20for%20their%20publication.&text=Positive%20or%20statistically%20significant%20findings,than%20null%20or%20negative%20findings." target="_blank">The importance of no evidence</a> - Editorial Nature Human Behaviour (2019)</li> <li><a href="https://www.insidescience.org/news/when-scientists-find-nothing-value-null-results" target="_blank">When Scientists Find Nothing: The Value of Null Results</a> - Inside Science (2020)</li> <li><a href="https://www.mondaysciencepodcast.com/listen/episode/374c6cab/episode-70-covid19-retracted-papers" target="_blank">Monday Science Episode 70 - COVID19 Retracted Papers </a></li> <li>Example of where studies have investigated the influence of publication bias and impact</li> </ul> -<a href="https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2021/03/07/jech-2020-214611" target="_blank"> Suicide risk with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and other new-generation antidepressants in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies</a> [Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2021] -<a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n544" target="_blank"> Vitamin D and covid-19</a> [BMJ, 2021] - <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n544/rapid-responses" target="_blank">Rapid Responses </a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/RFPR" target="_blank">BMC Psychology ‘results-free- peer-re

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