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[QUOTE="Laroxe, post: 5463159, member: 555853"] There are lots of things going on at the moment in an effort to restore credibility to a lot of science publication, the so called "crisis of confidence" there is increasing evidence of a whole range of issues ranging from downright corruption, misrepresenting finding, failure in the peer review system, hiding results, changing success criteria part way through trials and so it goes on. The problem is that a great deal of money rests on publication and impact factors, Poppers ideas around research would suggest that negative results are in fact more important than positive results but many people see failure to achieve significant findings as a failure and don't even submit paper, and for them that do, journals want papers with findings, it attracts custom and so there is an estimated 3 to 1 bias in favour of papers showing significant results. Its a bit frightening that medical research is in fact considered to be among the least reliable. A quick read of some of the stuff on Retraction Watches website should increase your anxiety a little more. [/QUOTE]
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