Andrew Gelman has been wondering how much time he should spend criticizing crappy research, and so am I. He wrote the post after a discussion with Jeff Leek of Simply Statistics about replication and criticism. Harsh criticism of preliminary studies could discourage new research, which would definitely be a bad thing, and Leek notes that shaming people who do research that gets retracted is probably not going to help science be self-correcting.
Read the full post at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
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