Most scientific papers are probably wrong
5th Sep 2005, 15:10 GMT
Small sample sizes, poor study design, researcher bias, and selective reporting and other problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true....
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