Four erroneous beliefs thwarting more trustworthy research

Abstract

A range of problems currently undermines public trust in biomedical research. We discuss four erroneous beliefs that may prevent the biomedical research community from recognizing the need to focus on deserving this trust, and thus which act as powerful barriers to necessary improvements in the research process.

Keywords

• trustworthy research
• quality improvement
• research reforms
• reproducibility
• point of view