Summary The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by applying principles from the field of economics. The “winner’s curse,” a more general ...
“some scientists wondered how a questionable line of research persisted for so long … experts were just too timid to take a stand.” Harvard calls for retraction of dozens of studies by noted cardiologist, New York Times, http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/10/16/news/harvard-calls-for-retract ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798 J R Soc Med. 2006 Apr; 99(4): 178–182. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.99.4.178 Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals 同行评议:科学和期刊中的一个重要 瑕疵 作者:Richard Smith; 英汉对照 Peer review is at the heart of t ...
经典句子: “the paper claims to be a randomized controlled trial but it isn’t” and “when you look at the graphs, it’s pretty clear there’s no effect” and “the authors draw conclusions that are totally unsupported by the data.” Reviewers mostly didn’t notice. “该论文声称实验没 ...
经典句子: specialist classes make informational gatekeeping processes into safeguards for their own status. 专业阶层将信息把关过程变成了保护他们自身地位的保障。 ====== https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-279293-1377383.html https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the ...
经典句子: now if you think this is just a problem for psychology , neuroscience , or medicine , consider the pentaquark, an exotic particle made up of five quarks , as opposed to the regular three for protons or neutrons. particle physics employs particularly str ...
视频文件: Top 10 Most Famous Scientific Theories That Turned out to be Wrong1.mp4 出处: Top 10 Most Famous Scientific Theories That Turned out to be Wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuMPLoQZN4 Top 10 Most Famous Scientific Theories (That Turned out to ...
“Can so many scientists have been wrong over the eighty years since 1925? Unhappily, yes. The mainstream in science, as any scientist will tell you, is often wrong. Otherwise, come to think of it, science would be complete. Few scientists would make that claim, or would want to. Statistical sig ...