(oncampus.macleans.ca): Rigorous peer review and the scientific method ensure that what gets published in scientific journals is true or at least as close to truth as we can get. Unfortunately, that just doesn’t seem to be the case. Peer review often fails to detect major problems with research and that even the most stringent efforts to eliminate variables often can’t to control random chance. In an article in the New Yorker, neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer explores something called the “decline effect.”.
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