Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.

Why this matters here

Ioannidis’s 2005 PLoS Medicine essay argues that bias, flexibility, and incentive structures in modern research make many published findings unlikely to survive scrutiny—rewarding exciting positive results over careful ones. When Incentives Become the Moral Language places that claim beside later replication debates as evidence that the translation layer between inquiry and recognition developed incentives of its own. Ioannidis analyzes research design and publication bias; the book asks what portable metrics and novelty pressure do to what institutions can see.