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Credited with speaking on behalf of the establishment, or at least the royal society. How to sort through the noise around global warming. Steven novella discusses a recent article in the atlantic in which researcher john ioannidis shows that 40% of papers published in top medical journals are either wrong or make exaggerated claims and those are the top journals. Lies, damned lies, and medical science magazine lies, damned lies, and medical science magazine the atlantic page 1 of 5.
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