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It should be noted that Dr Ioannidis's study suffers from its own particular bias.
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Medical mathematician John Ioannidis, arguably the Torquemada of this trend, was profiled by David H.
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Thanou's lawyer, Gregory Ioannidis, told the BBC that the IOC's decision was based on "lack of legal arguments and the discrimination".
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Previous work by Dr Ioannidis, on six highly cited observational studies, showed that conclusions from five of them were later refuted.
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But, as Dr Ioannidis points out, adhering to this standard means that simply examining 20 different hypotheses at random is likely to give you one statistically significant result.
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When Dr Ioannidis ran the numbers through his model, he concluded that even a large, well-designed study with little researcher bias has only an 85% chance of being right.
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The consequence of that mistake, as John Ioannidis of the University of Ioannina School of Medicine, in Greece, explained to the meeting, is that a lot of observational health studies those that go trawling through databases, rather than relying on controlled experiments cannot be reproduced by other researchers.
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