The politics of research—Or why you can't trust anything you read, including this article!

Abstract

In this post truth world, it would be comforting to know that science and scientific research can provide unbiased factual evidence either to refute or to validate claims made by the media. However, this article highlights how “research” is consistently both deliberately and accidentally biased from hypothesis right through construction to data analysis and reporting of that data. It goes on to show how, in the world of psychotherapeutic research, the risks are even greater, but highlights why this does not mean we should abandon research altogether.