In this piece from 2005, Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis explains that the majority of modern “science” is unscientific. When a range of mitigating factors are accounted for—such as bias, loose interpretations of statistical significance, and small sample sizes—the majority of published “statistically significant” findings are likely to be untrue or unverifiable.
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