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But the supplied data apparently weren't detailed enough, and results from 16 of the 18 major papers couldn't fully be reproduced by Dr. Ioannidis and his colleagues.

Scientists' Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results Gautam Naik 2011

"We have to take it on faith that the findings are OK," said Dr. Ioannidis, an epidemiologist who studies the credibility of medical research.

Scientists' Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results Gautam Naik 2011

John Ioannidis , a professor of disease prevention at Stanford University, who wasn't involved in the study, called the analysis "state-of-the-art," and said that he agreed with the findings.

Study Challenges FDA on Plavix Shirley S. Wang 2011

As John P.A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford, argued in his provocative 2005 paper, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False," just because a study can claim the slenderest of statistical significance doesn't mean that the finding can be repeated in later research.

Taking a Novel Approach to Life Eric Felten 2012

Veronique Kiermer , an editor at Nature, says she agrees with Dr. Ioannidis' conclusions, noting that the findings have prompted the journal to be more cautious when publishing large-scale genome analyses.

Scientists' Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results Gautam Naik 2011

John Ioannidis of Stanford University recently attempted to reproduce the findings of 18 papers published in the respected journal Nature Genetics.

Scientists' Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results Gautam Naik 2011

In 2005, PLoS Medicine published an essay by John Ioannidis, called "Why most published research findings are false," that has been downloaded over 100,000 times.

February 27th, 2007 2007

Ioannidis states that the hotter a scientific field is low fat and statins come to mind and the more scientific teams are involved, the less likely it will be that any research findings will be true.

TV alert | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

The replication process is more important than the first discovery, Ioannidis says ...

Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives 2005

In an article in the Public Library of Science Medicine, John P.A. Ioannidis, an epidemiologist, argues that more than 50 percent of the conclusions drawn in papers published in scientific journals are false.

Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives 2005