Research, We Have A Problem

"'Journals favor novelty, originality, and verification of hypotheses over robustness, stringency of method, reproducibility, and falsifiability,' Hagger tells Quartz. 'Therefore researchers have been driven to finding significant effects, finding things that are novel, testing them on relatively small samples.'

"This has created a publication bias, where studies that show strong, positive results get published, while similar studies that come up with no significant effects sit at the bottom of researchers’ drawers."

Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false.