'unsound research' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to research that is not based on reliable evidence or sound methodology. For example, "The professor's thesis was largely based on unsound research, so the results were not very meaningful."
Sometimes, certain such decisions can lead to unsound ethical practices, reducing research quality and cause negative impact on the participant community.
The court of appeal had quashed Butler's original conviction but not made any ruling on what had happened, merely concluding the conviction was unsound because of new scientific research which challenged the medical consensus on shaken baby syndrome.
While Barrick will not reward any process that is environmentally unsound, Mr. Wilkins hopes the competition stimulate research of a broad range of cleaner processes for extracting minerals.
Appointed by, and accountable to, a National Science Board, Bush's NRF chairman would be insulated from political pressure, whether from the White House or Congress, to fund research that might prove politically expeditious but technically unsound.
Researchers stopped the trial in April because of signs of liver toxicity, but that does not mean the general idea is unsound.On December 5th, for example, GlaxoSmithKline announced partnerships with six academic research centres to develop new therapeutic drug combinations.
Considering that healthcare professionals have an ethical duty to palliate when a child is believed to be suffering at the end of life [ 12, 13], the lacuna of evidence-based care practices derived from PPC research with patients can be both ethically questionable and methodologically unsound [ 14].
The complexity of clinical research has meant that clinical trial protocols are often scientifically and ethically unsound.
"I hope your rage might swell," he says, listing dozens of examples of unflattering research hushed up by the legal apparatus of the pharmaceutical industry, along with unsound publication practices that derail honest attempts at evidence-based medicine.
Having clearly done no research into how environmentally archaic the whole "new" garbage plan is, nor how dangerous, socially unjust, and environmentally unsound the Yorkville dump is, the Times' editorial board wrote in favor of it.
