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But then again molecular biology is younger than psychology and still doesn't have its order of magnitude of replication problems.
by metacritic12 5y ago
But then again molecular biology is younger than psychology and still doesn't have its order of magnitude of replication problems.
- kens 5y agoMolecular biology has a big problem with people faking results. Even when the fakery is pointed out, journals are very, very slow to do anything about this. Elizabeth Bik has put a lot of work into finding faked images in published papers. Her Twitter feed is pretty entertaining; she presents images and challenges reader to find the duplications. https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest For more, see Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01363-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01363-z