Can we believe the majority of biological sciences research?

• Yes?
• No?

• Highly skilled researchers
• Peer review
• Robust scientific method

• Highly skilled researchers
  • Who are self-taught
  • Who love to address new topics and use new techniques
  • Who are under huge pressure to publish, get grants, survive
• Peer review
  • Is full of bias against certain labs / techniques / new findings / old findings
  • Is slow
  • Publications can be corrected, but most are not (from my friend the meta-analyst)
  • Corrections are viewed very negatively, then forgotten
• Robust scientific method
  • …

Easily?

Not easily?

• Selective memory
• Too much information
• Positive perception
• Limited time
• The God complex
• Self-deception

Formal teaching in computing? Excel???

http://mikecroucher.github.io/MLPM_talk/

• Yes?
• No?