Researchers planning to do #SystematicReviews must now plan to filter out the #JunkScience. That's difficult, time-consuming, error-prone, and demoralizing. It causes some researchers to drop their plans and forces others to move more slowly.
https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril
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#Academia #LiteratureReviews #MetaResearch #MetaScience #ScholComm
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@petersuber @academicchatter will this trigger the development of databases with expert opinions about literature, with an open API, ontological annotation, etc? interesting times
@egonw @petersuber @academicchatter would be nice, bunch of articles I reproduced their result and came to the realisation their conclusions are utter bullshit.
