Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

by Stuart Ritchie

Of the articles that were published, the percentages for strong, mixed, and null results were 53 per cent, 37 per cent and 9 per cent, respectively. There was, in other words, a 44-percentage-point chasm between the probability of publication for strong results versus null ones.