Informative copy pasta I found regarding how much scientific literature is false. It's about 50 percent.

38  2016-12-10 by [deleted]

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3  no1113 2016-12-10

Because $cience!!

2  AccurateLinguist 2016-12-10

can't trust Heroes

3  [deleted] 2016-12-10

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1  AccurateLinguist 2016-12-10

"On the shoulders of giants." means nothing now, sadly.

i beg to disagree. we are always standing upon the shoulders of giants

2  [deleted] 2016-12-10

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2  AccurateLinguist 2016-12-10

bam..great response....

i think you hit it on the nail with the whole "haste" thing. and how we have to learn to vet our own data absent heroes to save us.

2  [deleted] 2016-12-10

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1  factsnotfeelings 2016-12-10

Thanks.

1  paganmanintruth 2016-12-10

Great post!

1  nut_conspiracy_nut 2016-12-10

It varies by the discipline. Math is pretty darn pure. Physics is mostly alright.

http://retractionwatch.com/

2  lachiemx 2016-12-10

Physics? Where they make up stuff to fit the data and fudge the data even more to make it work?

Dark matter anyone?

1  JudiciousJay 2016-12-10

We'll call it confirmation bias, but this validates my views of the religion of science