The journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently retracted several papers by a leading researcher on food and consumption. What does this mean for the researcher’s findings?
Negative results are still useful, and should not be hidden.
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Questionable research practices are not fraud, and they’re not cause for panic. But they do give us some hints about how we can make science more robust.
Many scientific studies aren’t holding up in further tests.
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This is the second part in a series on how we edit science, looking at hypothesis testing, the problem of p-hacking and how the peer review process works.