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While it may be true that 50% of papers are wrong in some fields, the papers that are wrong are probably not the most highly publicized ones or the ones in the
by kvb 9y ago
While it may be true that 50% of papers are wrong in some fields, the papers that are wrong are probably not the most highly publicized ones or the ones in the most prestigious journals (and when those papers are wrong the incentive to publish corrective papers is high), so this probably isn't quite as big a problem as it's made out to be.
- laretluval 9y ago> the papers that are wrong are probably not the most highly publicized ones or the ones in the most prestigious journals If you google around about the replication crisis you will discover that the opposite is true.
- fiddlerwoaroof 9y agoThis is a fairly good example of the sorts of biases one even finds among scientists: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/37566392...