If we try to be charitable, Ioannidis was too confident in his research team who made mistakes; for example: > The authors said by email that they used a built

If we try to be charitable, Ioannidis was too confident in his research team who made mistakes; for example: > The authors said by email that they used a built-in Stata function and aren't sure themselves how the software used the input weights. I suspect they misapplied that function (too complicated to tweet why) but I don't know Stata well enough to be sure; it seems neither do they. https://twitter.com/wfithian/status/1252692357788479488 https://twitter.com/wfithian/status/1252692357788479488 Then, Ioannidis probably didn't double check the work in depth because of confirmation bias and over-confidence in his protégés.