{"id":5081,"date":"2010-03-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2010-03-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T08:00:00","slug":"no-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5081","title":{"rendered":"No Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/feature\/id\/57091\/title\/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong\">Odds Are, it&#8217;s Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They seem to be looking specifically at medical (and related) research; I don&#8217;t know if there is a greater prevalence of an underlying problem \u2014 not publishing null results \u2014 in those fields as compared to elsewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the years, hundreds of published papers have warned that science\u2019s love affair with statistics has spawned countless illegitimate findings. In fact, if you believe what you read in the scientific literature, you shouldn\u2019t believe what you read in the scientific literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is increasing concern,\u201d declared epidemiologist John Ioannidis in a highly cited 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine, \u201cthat in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds Are, it&#8217;s Wrong They seem to be looking specifically at medical (and related) research; I don&#8217;t know if there is a greater prevalence of an underlying problem \u2014 not publishing null results \u2014 in those fields as compared to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5081\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}