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Friday, 01/18/2019 12:07:59 AM

Friday, January 18, 2019 12:07:59 AM

BTW, I also agree that it is unlikely that there are any issues with the article published on JTM. Liau strikes me as a first-rate scientist (judgement based on past experience with scientists, not directly with LL unfortunately).

That is not to say that scientific research should be trusted blindly. Economic, social, political and personal issues plague the endeavor to a highly surprising degree. As just a first approximation, you may be familiar with the work of John Ioannidis, a researcher who studies scientific research.

He wrote the paper “Why most published research findings are false:”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

It is one of the most referenced papers ever published. The implications are pretty far-reaching but I don’t want to think about them now because I want to go to sleep tonight.

Anyway, commenting on the success of the work, Ioannidis said:

"This probably only proves that citation metrics are highly unreliable, since I estimate that I have been rejected over 1,000 times in my life.“