"Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it's not" Economist

[Dolphin]

Long article. It talks about all sorts of research, not just biomedical research, and no mention of ME/CFS.
But touches on various issues/problems in research.

Unreliable research

Trouble at the lab

Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not

Oct 19th 2013
http://www.economist.com/news/brief...elf-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble

 

[taniaaust1]

Thanks for that link. I was having a bit of a debate over this subject with someone not that long ago.

 

[Ema]

Amen!

 

[Esther12]

It does seem to be that there's a growing awareness of the sort of problems people here have been going on about since I first joined. Surely a good sign of some (slow) progress coming.