Horton declared, “Much of the scientific
literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies
with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and
flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing
fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn
towards darkness.”
Here he was in 2006, saying, "We publish stuff that's wrong every day!"
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