> publication bias – the tendency for positive but not negative results to be published Many years ago Feynman expressed concern and regret about the harm that

> publication bias – the tendency for positive but not negative results to be published Many years ago Feynman expressed concern and regret about the harm that causes to experimental physics. One can imagine it being a far bigger issue in some of the social sciences, where there is nothing nearly as consistently apolitical as Nature to gradually separate reality from comforting delusion.