CoolBeans' post has just 1/3 of the original story. The DOE is establishing three Bioenergy Research Centers, one of which is the JBEI. The other two are the DOE BioEnergy Science Center led by the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center led by the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. All three centers are sharing equally in the funding. See the news page at DOE http://www.energy.gov/news/5172.htm.
Ioannidis' previous publications summarize the results of clinical studies, that is, studies on human populations. These studies are generally not replicated before publication because they are long and expensive. The results of these studies are often published, in spite of the lack of replication, because they appear to be statistically significance. But statisical significance does not assure that a result is repeatable, and, in fact, many such published results are not.
However, in many (most?) scientific disciplines, experiments are replicated, sometimes many times, before publication. As you might expect, experimental results that are replicated in one laboratory before publication are more likely to be confirmed in other laboratories after publication. Ioannidis' claims do not apply to such experiments.
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CoolBeans' post has just 1/3 of the original story. The DOE is establishing three Bioenergy Research Centers, one of which is the JBEI. The other two are the DOE BioEnergy Science Center led by the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, and DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center led by the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. All three centers are sharing equally in the funding. See the news page at DOE http://www.energy.gov/news/5172.htm.
Ioannidis' previous publications summarize the results of clinical studies, that is, studies on human populations. These studies are generally not replicated before publication because they are long and expensive. The results of these studies are often published, in spite of the lack of replication, because they appear to be statistically significance. But statisical significance does not assure that a result is repeatable, and, in fact, many such published results are not.
However, in many (most?) scientific disciplines, experiments are replicated, sometimes many times, before publication. As you might expect, experimental results that are replicated in one laboratory before publication are more likely to be confirmed in other laboratories after publication. Ioannidis' claims do not apply to such experiments.