“Salesmanship”
Gøtzsche BMJ 2006
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
< 10-4 < 10-3 < 0.01 < 0.02 < 0.03 < 0.04 < 0.05 < 0.06 < 0.10 < 0.20 ≥ 0.20
p values
Number of Observations
70%
30%
1
rst
p-value appearing in abstracts
of 260 RCTs published in 2003