The Atlantic: “A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers”

A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers

Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/waste-1000-studies/589684/

Very glad to see this article, Selz, thanks for sharing.  I think it's an important read, and illustrates perfectly what I've been saying for a while now.  What a sad, messy state of affairs "science" has become, for one reason or another.  Exactly as the article states, sadly, most published research has become like a house of cards built on fractured foundations or, in this particular case, a *non-existent* foundation.

 

This quote works well too:

"It’s as if they’d been “describing the life cycle of unicorns, what unicorns eat, all the different subspecies of unicorn, which cuts of unicorn meat are tastiest, and a blow-by-blow account of a wrestling match between unicorns and Bigfoot,” Alexander wrote."

 

Yes, excellent article, seltzerer! Thanks for sharing it here. I loved that unicorn part too, abcd!

Glad you found it helpful!

Excellent

As Prof Read says “ bad things happen to some people”.

Thanks

Dickie