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And even though it was corrected and the result retracted, it was already cited by many papers, the media didn’t report the retraction etc. How much of scientific reporting gets skewed by media interests (controversy and sensationalism) and funding and political interests?

Furthermore, this whole field was called cargo cult science by Feynman, using correlations, p-hacking, data dredging, and more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem

The best analysis I have seen of the corner we have painted ourselves into

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...




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