The FDA, CDC, and NIH are offering wads of cash to anyone who will find support for their agenda.
And their agenda, for some reason, seems to have nothing to do with truth or science.
I'm glad this story of corruption came out in mainstream media.
Another one from what some think as the ultimate in mainstream media:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/s...not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html?_r=0
"The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist
was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers."
“I think we knew or suspected that the literature had problems, but to see it so clearly, on such a large scale — it’s unprecedented,” said Jelte Wicherts, an associate professor in the department of methodology and statistics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.'
The piece is about psychology studies but it is a problem in many studies as explained here:
"Dr. John Ioannidis, a director of Stanford University’s Meta-Research Innovation Center, who once estimated that about half of published results across medicine were inflated or wrong, noted the proportion in psychology was even larger than he had thought. He said the problem could be even worse in other fields, including cell biology, economics, neuroscience, clinical medicine, and animal research.
"The report appears at a time when the number of retractions of published papers is
rising sharply in a wide variety of disciplines. Scientists have pointed to a hypercompetitive culture across science that favors novel, sexy results and provides little incentive for researchers to replicate the findings of others, or for journals to publish studies that fail to find a splashy result."
