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<blockquote data-quote="Lupf" data-source="post: 2274043" data-attributes="member: 518059"><p>You made a statement about scientists fiddling their data, which is dishonest and needs to be exposed, But it happens less often then headlines claim, in particular on social media where these are unchecked. Your example is not about cheating, but something different.</p><p></p><p>That said the newspaper article that you quote is a good illustration of what is actually going on. In drug studies a lot of claims don't hold up and cannot be repeated. Why is this happening? One reason is: "Never underestimate incompetence" by which I mean sloppy work, bad methods, bias for positive results (unconscious or not). Another one is - medical studies are difficult. It is very hard to find a true causal relation which, in reality, is not a correlation. This is why I always look if a result has been corroborated by at least one other study</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lupf, post: 2274043, member: 518059"] You made a statement about scientists fiddling their data, which is dishonest and needs to be exposed, But it happens less often then headlines claim, in particular on social media where these are unchecked. Your example is not about cheating, but something different. That said the newspaper article that you quote is a good illustration of what is actually going on. In drug studies a lot of claims don't hold up and cannot be repeated. Why is this happening? One reason is: "Never underestimate incompetence" by which I mean sloppy work, bad methods, bias for positive results (unconscious or not). Another one is - medical studies are difficult. It is very hard to find a true causal relation which, in reality, is not a correlation. This is why I always look if a result has been corroborated by at least one other study [/QUOTE]
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