Suppose that for some reason the chemical doctrine had been highly prized throughout some district as the foundation of its social order — would it have been wise, would it have been candid, would it have been moral, to forbid the disclosure of the fact that the experiments produced discordant results? (religion-online.org)
We hypothesized that industry sponsorship and authors» financial conflicts of interest would be associated with discordant results and conclusions (with results unfavorable toward artificially sweetened beverages and conclusions favorable toward artificially sweetened beverages). (journals.plos.org)
The paper discusses possible reasons for the discordant results, such as differences in how patients were recruited. (sciencemag.org)