In article >, Myo Cardium > wrote:
>You would be surprised at the amount of medical (bench and clinical)
>research that is done that never finds it's way to a paper or that
>takes several years (3, 4, even 5 years) between data acquisition and
>paper submission.
>
>Quite a bit of medical research is, naturally, conducted by MD's who
>usually have clinical responsibilities and thus are really not in a
>position to "perish" if they don't "publish".

And since they have little or no research training (that's why med schools
offer dual MD/PhD programs) much of that research is flawed, which is why
it doesn't get published.

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