“Research has found” that 1 in 5 pieces of research are bunkum

Actually it hasn't. Apart from the phrase “research has found”, which is a quote from a story in The Daily Telegraph the other day, I made the rest up. Although it might be true, for all anyone knows. “Peer reviewed” might be the best protection from research nonsense that we consumers of traditional and social media have, but peer reviewed nonsense is still nonsense and the effects may be worse: Burt on the heritability of IQ? Wakefield on MMR and... Read more →