Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Iain Murray

08/30/05

A Tufts University School of Medicine reporter has realized that a pretty large amount of scientific findings are, well, wrong. This work follows on from a recent publication of his that found that a third of medical research articles published in major scientific journals and then cited over a thousand times in the literature are later contradicted or have major questions raised over them. The reasons are many...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04799.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Thanks for that link to "Questioning the authority of scientific journals" but it needs to be pointed out that the link provided http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04799.cfm is to one of those pro corporate spin groups, The Competitive Enterprise Institute, that will make their own spin out of the paper.

Please tell your readers to go to the article directly, which is at:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1549-1676

There's some other good articles there as well.

Regards

Don Maisch