{"id":68213,"date":"2021-12-10T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68213"},"modified":"2021-12-09T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:06:11","slug":"qotd-the-media-and-the-replication-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/12\/10\/qotd-the-media-and-the-replication-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The media and the replication crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Here is the iron law of medical &mdash; in fact all scientific &mdash; studies in the modern world: most do not replicate. This has always been true of studies that supposedly find some link between doing [thing we enjoy] and cancer. This of course does not stop the media from running with initial study results based on 37 study participants as &#8220;fact&#8221;. The same is true for studies of new drugs and treatments. Most don&#8217;t pan out or are not nearly as efficacious as early studies might indicate. We have seen that over and over during COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Meyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/coyoteblog.com\/coyote_blog\/2021\/08\/a-couple-of-thoughts-on-medical-studies-given-recent-experience.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Couple of Thoughts on Medical Studies Given Recent Experience&#8221;, <em>Coyote Blog<\/em><\/a>, 2021-08-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the iron law of medical &mdash; in fact all scientific &mdash; studies in the modern world: most do not replicate. This has always been true of studies that supposedly find some link between doing [thing we enjoy] and cancer. This of course does not stop the media from running with initial study results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28,41,16],"tags":[1085,243,213,1233,101],"class_list":["post-68213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-quotations","category-science","tag-fakenews","tag-medicine","tag-newspapers","tag-replicationcrisis","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hKd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70487,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68213\/revisions\/70487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}