brokenscience
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Four senior researchers at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have been accused of forging data through “duplications of blots, bands, and plots within images.”
The p value plays into the human need for certainty and has led to the reproducibility crisis in may fields. Some researchers want to tweak the system of analysis, while others want to overhaul it.
In this essay mathematician Paul Lockhart makes the argument that math is an art form, and should be taught like one.
More evidence emerges that the use of statins to lower cholesterol may be counterproductive in preventing heart failure. Though cholesterol levels may be lowered, statins can inhibit vitamin K production, a substance critical to preventing plague buildup in arteries.
