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... or some of it is, anyway. This interesting article by John Ioannidis claims that "[i]t can be proven that most claimed research findings are false", because of things like rushing to publication, bias towards publishing 'positive' results, conflicts of interest and the like.

I'd be interested to hear if any of you pro scientists out there disagree with his arguments or conclusions. The real reason I picked this out though is because there's a very pleasing Epimenidean quality to the notion "Scientific papers' conclusions are false, concludes scientific paper"...
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