[mehrdadn]

> Most papers are false and a lot of them should never have passed review.

Do you mean this literally or is this a metaphor to illustrate the point? If you actually mean most papers are false it'd be nice to see a link on that!

[michaelhoffman]

John Ioannidis claims that "most published research is false" based on some rather dubious assumptions.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statis...

[DataWorker]

I agree with him although the accuracy of that statement is partially based on how “published research” is defined. Operational definitions and measurement are themselves much of the problem.