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...Army researchers posted this update on the website of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program: "Explaining the differences between them is complex and the appropriate venue for this technical discussion of statistics is at an open scientific conference and in the scientific publication now under review at a major journal." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
Still, the manner in which the trial results were released raised suspicions among some in the AIDS-research community. Scientific results are generally vetted in a two-step process: first, they are published in a peer-reviewed journal, which means a panel of scientists has reviewed and evaluated the validity of the study's methods and the authors' conclusions before publication; once published, other research groups repeat or analyze the data in more depth to further ensure that they are legitimate. The results of the AIDS-vaccine trial did not benefit from either leg of this process. The investigators chose...
...confound matters further, after the Thai press conference, a select number of scientists received confidential data on the study. After reviewing the numbers, some of them discussed their concerns over the discordant statistics with journalists at Science magazine's Science Insider blog and the Wall Street Journal...
Correction: The original version of this article misstated that some AIDS researchers received confidential data prior to the Thai press conference in September; they received the data after. The article also misstated that these researchers published their concerns on the website of the journal Science; in fact they gave interviews to a Science reporter. Clarification: The original article did not elucidate the particular conditions under which researchers would analyze a smaller subset of clinical trial data, rather than the complete, original set; those details have been incorporated in the text...
...Harvard study, published in last week’s issue of the journal Cell, identified small molecules that can eliminate the need to use two of the four genes...