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The Lancet in 1998. Twelve years later, it was retracted by its publisher, who described the claims as “proven to be false.” Ten of the paper’s thirteen original coauthors had issued a note of retraction years earlier, in 2004, based on faulty “interpretation” of the study’s data. The main author, the gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, was banned
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Simon Carnell • Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
Part 1 of my three-part monograph ‘Behavioral Genetics and Human Agency’ is now live at Twin Research and Human Genetics. The subtitle and abstract (pictured) should give you a quick sense of what it’s about. An Open Access link is provided at the end of this thread. 1/10
In addition to the uselessness of peer-review, Richard Horton has previously stated the following about scientific research:
‘ Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.’
‘ Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.’
My current thinking on Covid-19 – and other important issues
Srinivasan called @lpachter and me “unprofessional” for carefully documenting instances of manipulated data in his work.
You can read about my thoughts regarding this response and my hope for the future in this Q&A by @Sara_Talpos for MIT’s @undarkmag
https://t.co/z9gzVO05TA
Laura Luebbert, PhDx.comIn addition, if major medical journals, and their peer-reviewers, are unable pick-up research fraud. Then what, exactly, is the point of them. To quote Richard Horton again (sic) half of what is in them is may simply be untrue ... ‘ Which half, please. Oh, you don’t know. ’
My current thinking on Covid-19 – and other important issues
Among many memorable events, I saw a talk by David Allison about his efforts to correct simple statistical mistakes in the published literature. He would notice a clear and obvious error, like a claimed interaction that wasn’t actually tested properly. He would then send a polite email to the authors to explain the situation so it could be... See more