Esther12
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This paper made me think of CFS research. FINE was published (considering the amount of money and publicity involved, it had to be), but those who have made their careers on the theories tested by FINE seem keen to avoid acknowledging it as a falsification of their claims:
Full paper: http://pps.sagepub.com/content/7/6/555.full#aff-2
Publication bias remains a controversial issue in psychological science. The tendency of psychological science to avoid publishing null results produces a situation that limits the replicability assumption of science, as replication cannot be meaningful without the potential acknowledgment of failed replications. We argue that the field often constructs arguments to block the publication and interpretation of null results and that null results may be further extinguished through questionable researcher practices. Given that science is dependent on the process of falsification, we argue that these problems reduce psychological science’s capability to have a proper mechanism for theory falsification, thus resulting in the promulgation of numerous “undead” theories that are ideologically popular but have little basis in fact.
Full paper: http://pps.sagepub.com/content/7/6/555.full#aff-2