How Bad Is the Government’s Science?
4/17/18
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from The Wall Street Journal,
4/16/18:
Policy makers often cite research to justify their rules, but many of those studies wouldn’t replicate.
Half the results published in peer-reviewed scientific journals are probably wrong. John Ioannidis, now a professor of medicine at Stanford, made headlines with that claim in 2005. Since then, researchers have confirmed his skepticism by trying—and often failing—to reproduce many influential journal articles.
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