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Researchers such as John Ioannidis have been making an increasingly good case in the last few years that a substantial proportion of published research in areas such as the social sciences and medicine may be wrong or misleading, though.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

It's a crisis worth becoming aware of and thinking about the implications of.