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by hprotagonist 1737 days ago
i don’t want to know about each test that didn’t work as a separate publication, that’s for sure!
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That's true, we would need a way to collect this data so it's easily seen as part of a whole.

E.g. if you search for eggs and cholesterol you should find all studies with their summarized results on whether eggs are ok or not for your cholesterol, grouped by researcher, so if somebody does 200 studies to find the one positive it's instantly visible.

You would read a meta-study that summarizes those tests - especially because they might potentially made by different labs, and the fact that one of them worked might be actual a real effect caused by some other difference in the experiment.