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Available online /content/6/3/117 Commentary A surplus of positive trials: weighing biases and reconsidering equipoise David T Felson1 and Leonard Glantz2 1Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Corresponding author: David Felson (e-mail: dfelson@) Received: 5 Apr 2004 Accepted: 15 Apr 2004 Published: 27 Apr 2004 Arthritis Res Ther 2004, 6:117-119 (DOI 10.1186/ar1189) ? 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract In this issue, Fries and Krishnan raise provocative new ideas to explain the surfeit of