WSJ: How bad is the Government’s science?
Back in 2005, John Ioannidis, who is now a professor of medicine at Stanford, made headlines by announcing that half the results published in peer-reviewed scientific journals were probably wrong. And since then, “researchers have confirmed his skepticism by trying—and often failing—to reproduce many influential journal articles.”1But, what about our government? Are they concerned about the science behind the policies they are making? RELATED STORY: Editor in Chief of world’s best known medical journal: Half of all the literature is false The biggest issues have come from psychology studies: in a 2015 article in Science, independent researchers tried to...
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