Dr Neil O’Connell, Reader in Physiotherapy at Brunel University London, discusses trustworthiness of scientific research. Errors can arise in scientific research due to a range of factors, including simple typographical errors.
Neil discusses, using examples, how health care professionals rely on medical research and that there are real implications for patients’ lives if that research turns out to be unreliable.
Neil discusses and explains tools to assess the trustworthiness of scientific studies.
Open Science means that there is transparency at all stages of the research process, so those interested in the research and its outcomes can examine how the research was carried out.

== In this video ==
0:00 Introduction: Trust
0:37 Elements of trust
3:03 Types of errors in research
3:42 Examples
5:24 Importance of trustworthiness
5:43 Tools and methods to detect untrustworthiness
7:14 Open Science reduces reliance on “trust”
8:16 Continuing the conversation around Trust