A recurrent theme in history is “Who will watch the watchers?” Nor does science escape such scrutiny as the two studies discussed in this podcast remind us. These studies also remind us one again that, for as good as it is, the scientific method isn’t without its problems. You can read an abstract of Brian Nosek’s study regarding irreproducible results here and the complete Vickers, Tijdink, and Otte study of the use of positive and negative adjectives in PubMed abstracts here.
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