Weinberg is apparently now of the opinion that cancer research is so full of shit it is not even worth trying a replication project. Not kidding: >"Critics hav

Weinberg is apparently now of the opinion that cancer research is so full of shit it is not even worth trying a replication project. Not kidding: >"Critics have dismissed the cancer-study endeavour as time-consuming, out-of-touch with the realities of basic science and unlikely to produce interpretable results. “It’s a naÏveté that by simply embracing this ethic, which sounds eminently reasonable, that one can clean out the Augean stables of science,” says Robert Weinberg, a cancer biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts." http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-scales-back-ambitions-1.18938 http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-sc... Probably due to all the retractions he had to deal with out of his lab recently: http://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/06/cancer-research-retraction-is-fifth-for-robert-weinberg-fourth-for-his-former-student/ http://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/06/cancer-research-retrac... I wonder how much he still believes what he wrote in 2000.