"...Mr. Andreessen starts with the replication crisis in scientific studies, especially in psychology—over half of studies can’t be replicated.
I suggest “studies show” are the two most dangerous words in the English language.
Mr. Andreessen quickly adds, “The corollary is ‘experts say.’ ”
Mr. Andreessen’s friend in the scientific research world told him about a historical study of heart and lung drugs that were approved but were not effective.
Mr. Andreessen’s friend in the scientific research world told him about a historical study of heart and lung drugs that were approved but were not effective.
Mr. Andreessen learned that “one of the things you do to counter a replication crisis is a ‘preregistration of hypothesis’—instead of pretending after the fact that you have a hypothesis, that you’re cherry-picking data to prove.”
The result of this preregistration?
There were fewer new drugs approved because researchers could no longer fudge the data.
“Of course, what this implies is that most drugs that are already on the market today probably don’t work.”
His friend agreed and said forget 50%, it’s 90% of research that is bad to begin with...Read all!!!
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