Stealth research: is biomedical innovation happening outside the peer-reviewed literature?
JPA Ioannidis - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Information about Theranos, a privately held biotechnology company that has developed
novel approaches for laboratory diagnostic testing, has appeared in The Wall Street Journal,
Business Insider, San Francisco Business Times, Fortune, Forbes, Medscape, and Silicon
Valley Business Journal—but not in the peer-reviewed biomedical literature. As of January
5, 2015, a search in PubMed using Theranos as a search term identified affiliations for only
2 unrelated articles coauthored by Theranos Inc employees, although these 2 reports do not …
novel approaches for laboratory diagnostic testing, has appeared in The Wall Street Journal,
Business Insider, San Francisco Business Times, Fortune, Forbes, Medscape, and Silicon
Valley Business Journal—but not in the peer-reviewed biomedical literature. As of January
5, 2015, a search in PubMed using Theranos as a search term identified affiliations for only
2 unrelated articles coauthored by Theranos Inc employees, although these 2 reports do not …