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Episode 44: The Fallibility of Commonly Accepted Information

Apr 07, 202426 min
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"The majority of papers that get published, even in serious journals, are pretty sloppy." -Professor of Medicine at Stanford University John Loannidis (Specializes in study of scientific studies)

The history of science is most scientists being wrong about most things most of the time. I expect that, and nothing less; today I offer a few examples of why.

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