science Mon Jun 28th @ 1:00pm by Paul Ingraham

A new article about a famous scientific paper with an irresponsible and misleading title

In 2005, PLoS Medicine published a now-famous paper with the attention-grabbing but exasperating title, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”. It was written by John Ioannidis, MD, PhD, an American doctor from Greece, a distinguished author of about 400 peer-reviewed papers, 40 books and book chapters or so, and much more. Ioannidis is a giant, and I am really nobody to criticize.

But I hate the title of that paper!

I explain why in a new science-geeks-only article:

Ioannidis: Making Medical Science Look Bad Since 2005: A famous scientific paper with an irresponsible and misleading title

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