Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

John P. A. Ioannidis

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

John P. A. Ioannidis

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

John P. A. Ioannidis

Published: August 30, 2005
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

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Hard to believe

Posted by srenneberg on 07 Dec 2019 at 01:59 GMT

This article is hard to believe. Guess there must be a major problem with the systems we've created for publishing research.

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