The football-loving medical philosopher, founder of the Italian Cochrane Centre, and former member of the BMJ editorial board Alessandro Liberati died 12 years ago, but he was remembered with great fondness earlier this year when Mariangela, his wife, donated almost 150 of his books to the hospital library of Reggio Emilia Arcispedale, one of the finest and best restored medical libraries in Italy.1 Alessandro was passionate about some of the most famous writings on evidence based medicine, including the 1994 BMJ editorial by statistician Doug Altman, who wrote: “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons.”2 Alessandro tried to improve the quality of research by increasing the funding for independent and relevant clinical trials and research. He feared that the well of research might be poisoned, and 12 years after Alessandro’s death Altman’s words have not been heeded. There is vastly more research, and much of it is not only poor but fake, the product of paper mills and researchers desperate for publications. One of the friends of Alessandro was Drummond Rennie, the deputy editor of JAMA, founder of the Peer Review Congress, and the author of the greatest sentence ever to appear in …

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颂扬亚历山德罗·利贝拉蒂 （Alessandro Liberati）、他的远见卓识、书籍、期刊、图书馆、“反图书馆”和激进思想


热爱足球的医学哲学家、意大利 Cochrane 中心的创始人和 BMJ 编辑委员会前成员 Alessandro Liberati 于 12 年前去世，但今年早些时候，他的妻子 Mariangela 将他的近 150 本书捐赠给了雷焦艾米利亚·阿西斯佩德医院图书馆，这是意大利最好、修复最好的医学图书馆之一，人们对他怀有深情的怀念。基于医学，包括统计学家道格·奥特曼 （Doug Altman） 1994 年的 BMJ 社论，他写道：“我们需要更少的研究，更好的研究，以及出于正确原因进行的研究。2 Alessandro 试图通过增加对独立和相关临床试验和研究的资助来提高研究质量。他担心研究之井可能会被毒害，而亚历山德罗去世 12 年后，阿尔特曼的话一直没有得到重视。有更多的研究，其中大部分不仅很糟糕，而且是假的，是造纸厂和研究人员急于出版的产物。亚历山德罗的一位朋友是德拉蒙德·雷尼 （Drummond Rennie），他是 JAMA 的副主编，同行评审大会的创始人，也是有史以来最伟大的句子的作者......