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by Dan_Nguyen 4113 days ago
While unreproducible data does exist, I'd honestly blame mainstream news organizations more than the researchers themselves for all this 'course correcting'.

Case in point, back in my bio days I worked in a lab that published an article on CBD knockdown of metastatic cancer genes in cell cultures. Mainstream news organizations picked it up and published it as "Smoking pot cures cancer" pieces, which was not at all what our research even touched on.