...changing the drug development paradigm by open sourcing design and execution of clinical trials.
Transparency Life Sciences, or TLS is the world's first platform allowing for a completely open, Health 2.0 driven drug development. Our website and wiki workspaces will be dedicated to work on specific projects which will be announced very soon. This blog aims to solicit feedback on the idea. We are interested in hearing from those who "get it", but even more important is to know why you think "it will never work".
Important article on the Achilles heel of clinical research
ReplyDeleteThe following article, with its surprising findings, may well prove central to the full success of plans for LDN trials. It deals with the enormity of the distorting effect of human fallibility in scientific results (and thereby suggests a key solution through an open-source database). Please read:
"The Truth Wears Off" (Annals of Science) by Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker, Dec. 13, 2010; pages 52-57. Especially note the 3rd-from-last paragraph on pg. 56.