From Playboy: Trust
“I investigated your husband, Mrs. Adams. He isn’t cheating on you. In fact, I’m your husband. We’ve just really lost touch recently.” 🎨: Tom Toro pic.twitter.com/dC6A4M7gjB — Playboy (@Playboy) 2. März 2018
Tag Archives: trust
To Restore Trust in Online Transactions, Retailers Need to Develop a Virtual Handshake
Consumers and online retailers would benefit from a common process to resolve disputes and increase trust, MU legal expert says
COLUMBIA, Mo. – At one time, transactions between merchants and consumers were often sealed with a handshake. This handshake was more than a kind gesture—it helped reassure both parties that the other was committed to the deal and would correct any problems. As more transactions occur online, finding fair and efficient resolution of problems that arise can be challenging. In a new book, a University of Missouri legal expert says it’s in the best interest of both retailers and consumers to establish a new virtual handshake to bring trust back into such interactions. (more…)
Doctors Wary of Studies Funded by Pharmaceutical Industry, Study Shows
Physicians are about half as willing to prescribe drugs tested in pharmaceutical-industry funded trials than those in NIH-funded studies, a new study finds.
Physicians are less likely to trust the results of clinical trials when they know those trials were funded by pharmaceutical companies, regardless of the quality of the research, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows.
The study, led by Dr. Aaron Kesselheim of the Harvard Medical School in Boston and co-authored by University of Arizona associate professor of law Christopher Robertson, evaluated physicians’ confidence in the results of drug trials conducted with a high, medium or low level of methodological rigor. It then looked at how their confidence in those same results changed when a trial’s funding source was revealed as either the National Institutes of Health or a company in the pharmaceutical industry, versus when no funding source was disclosed. (more…)