PARACHUTE PREVENTS DEATH AND TRAUMA AGAINST GRAVITATIONAL CHALLENGE – (01-05-04)

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

The last issue of the year of the BMJ is all parody, but this one really has a little too much irony in it. How many times have we come across studies where the end result was one that was incredibly obvious (i.e. fast food in children leads to obesity…) and yet lots of money was spent to perform the study? By the way, anyone out there interested in being in the placebo wing of this study? bmj.com Abstracts: Smith and Pell 327 (7429): 1459 –

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