Registering trials in clinicaltrials.gov, naming primary outcomes beforehand, and making data publicly available increase research transparency and reduce industry influence.

“So, the thing that does help these days is you have to register register your trial in clinical trials.gov to start with. You have to name the primary outcome ahead of time and the whole study design for the world to see so that if it gets to the end of the study and you switched it, somebody will say calling you out on BS.”