Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Quora referenced this article in "Are dead fish often emotional?" on 08 Aug 2011 at 10:37 GMT

"The intention may have been to vindicate the protagonist in Monty Python's dead parrot skit and to put a new level of depth into the troutslapping scene.   That aside, some but not all neuroimaging papers may contain false positives. A similar thing is seen in proteomics and genomics. The landmark 2005 paper 'why most reasearch findings are false' by Ioannidis [1] discussed this. It is a very interesting introduction to how false positives may be especially pervasive in the life sciences.   [1] http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124"

Scientific Web Editor Blog referenced this article in "The problem of scientific truth" on 16 Dec 2010 at 14:35 GMT

"An interesting article appeared in this week's New Yorker magazine by Jonah Lehrer entitled "The"