Disproved Discoveries That Won Nobel Prizes
2nd December 2019
Over a million papers are published in scientific journals each year, and as Stanford University professor John Ioannidis wrote in a now legendary paper published to PLoS Medicine in 2005, most of their findings are false. Whether due to researcher error, insufficient data, poor methods, or the numerous biases present in people and pervasive in the ways research is conducted, a lot of scientific claims end up being incorrect.
Think about that next time you hear some climate-change Chicken Little go on about how The Science Is Settled.