After all, "publication bias affects every research field out there."
Vox is basically explaining fake news without any sense of irony about how this plays out in every other industry and field.
> "Let’s say hundreds of scientists are studying a topic. The ones who find counterintuitive, surprising results in their data will publish those surprising results as papers.
>The ones who find extremely standard, unsurprising results — say, “This intervention does not have any effects,” or, “There doesn’t seem to be a strong relationship between any of these variables” — will usually get rejected from journals, if they bother turning their disappointing results into a paper at all.
>That’s because journals like to publish novel results that change our understanding of the field. Null results (where the researchers didn’t find anything) or boring results (where they confirm something we already know) are much less likely to be published. And efforts to replicate other people’s papers often aren’t published, either, because journals want something new and different."
Very similar to my complaint on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19432720
Oh, and look, it's sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, the definition of globalism writ large:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation#Beginni...