About Statistics and stuff...
Fantastic powerpoint presentation relating to, and sourced from, my link in this thread: http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?p=161831
It is an incontestable fact that most negative or neutral results are not published. Editors do not like them and readers find them boring. Thus the published results are mostly winners in the one in twenty lottery; i.e. purely accidental.
Worse, there is now political censorship. Editors of once great journals, such as Nature, jump through hoops in order to prevent the publication of critiques of establishment dogma.
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/Stuff.ppt
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