Publication bias and the canonization of false facts

False facts and false views: coalescent analysis

4 Darwin’s dictum on false facts and false views points the way to opening the 5 road to truth via cogent criticism of the published record. Here I discuss a case in 6 which a truncated dataset (false facts) is used for coalescent analysis of historical 7 demography that reaches a foregone conclusion of a bottleneck of numbers (false 8 views). 9 “False facts are highly injurious to the progress...

Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias.

Publication policy or publication bias?

Although ‘‘a large number of studies have appeared in the literature that report associations of low penetrance genetic variants with disease,’’ as suggested in the recent CEBP editorial (1), hardly any of these reports have been translated into solid results by replication studies, at least for the common cancers. To some extent this is inevitable, as false-positive associations are an inheren...

Publication Bias

The Phenomenon of Publication Bias

Publication bias remains a controversial issue in psychological science. The tendency of psychological science to avoid publishing null results produces a situation that limits the replicability assumption of science, as replication cannot be meaningful without the potential acknowledgment of failed replications. We argue that the field often constructs arguments to block the publication and in...