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Unexpected Honey Study Shows Woes of Nutrition Research
- DougN7 11y agoSo much this! I wish I could remember the site where a medical researcher is going back and trying to reproduce past studies and finding something like 50%! can't be reproduced. A very close friend was telling me about an archaelogic dig he was on with a famous researcher that destroyed evidence that disagreed with his theories. Frustrating. At least our planes aren't falling out the skies so kudos to the physicists!
- iak8god 11y agoThe Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research > ... An analysis of past studies indicates that the cumulative (total) prevalence of irreproducible preclinical research exceeds 50% ... http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165