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"Cancer Research Is Broken" - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, Social Science - C C - Apr 23, 2016
http://andrewgelman.com/2016/04/20/cancer-research-is-broken/
EXCERPT: Michael Oakes pointed me to this excellent news article by Daniel Engber, subtitled, “There’s a replication crisis in biomedicine—and no one even knows how deep it runs.” Engber suggests that the replication problem in biomedical research is worse than the much-publicized replication problem in psychology....