Lessons From What is Not Discussed in Reports Recommending More Intensive Peer Review of Radiation Therapy Plans

The integrity of science is under siege. Today, a large percentage of people from the academic and lay community think that most scientific conclusions are false because they are based on poor-quality data produced from studies that are agenda-driven. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker (1) has written extensively about the anti-science movement in the lay press, and John Ioannidis from Stanford (2) is one of the most outspoken critics of the medical literature:There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false…for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias

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