A lot more science findings have been found out to be wrong
recently, and no one is sure why. Yesterday, The Wall Street
Journal quantified the trend: since 2001, there's been a 15-fold
increase in retractions in scientific journals. That's a big
deal, as those peer-reviewed studies form the basis for nearly
all science reporting in the news. We wouldn't be writing posts
noting how you can live longer, lose weight and avoid brain
shrinkage without them. And while The Journal notes that the
rise in noticed errors could just mean that science journals are
getting better at catching mistakes, others are taking a dimmer
view of the findings:    • The peer-review process is broken  As
Psych Central's John M. Grohol succinctly explains, "peer-review
is the process where journals vet incoming scientific articles
by reviewers." That filtering process, he argues, is broken
because researchers seem adverse to replicating the findings of
other researchers, which may lead to more errors escaping
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