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New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science
ananyo writes "John Ioannidis, the epidemiologist who published an infamous paper entitled 'Why most published research findings are false', has co-founded an institute dedicated to combating sloppy medical studies. The new institute is to focus on irreproducibility, waste in science and publication bias. The institute, called the Meta-Research Innovation Centre or METRICS, will, the Economist reports, 'create a "journal watch" to monitor scientific publishers' work and to shame laggards into better behaviour. And they will spread the message to policymakers, governments and other interested parties, in an effort to stop them making decisions on the basis of flaky studies. All this in the name of the centre's nerdishly valiant mission statement: "Identifying and minimising persistent threats to medical-research quality."'"
I tried to make a photocopy of it once.
rewriting history since 2109
Does anyone else remember "The journal of irreproducible results."?
The Inheritance Pattern of Death
Infectious Diseases in Bricks
Behavioral Genetics of the Sidehill Gouger
Golf and the Poo Muscle
Oh, in answer to your question: yes.
Brought to you by the same people who gave us Putoff, Targ, and Uri Geller.