🔴 **‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril**
Holly Else
_“The size of the problem is not clear, but a manuscript posted to the Center for Open Science’s OSF preprint server in September suggests up to one in seven published papers are fabricated or falsified.”_
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This reminded me of Murray Gell-Mann's recolection of deception rates estimates: 15% for bird fake warning calls, and 1 in 7 in bomber flight protection tactics.
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I remember reading it in The Quark and the Jaguar.