Two fun articles taking on bad data:
This one covers everything I will probably ever say in this blog, but with less pizzazz.
This one is trying to stop bad data before it starts. Don’t try to make things in to a scientific experiment if you have to fudge around things to do it. Just call it a model. I like that.
graph paper diaries 
Pizzaz, thy name is BS King, not John P. A. Ioannidis!
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Yeah, that article had the look of “Gee, this could be an important summary of where my thinking should be. It could be life-changing. Maybe someday I'll read more than a few paragraphs and a skim. But for now, some chardonnay is a better idea.” I'll wait for you to 'splain it to me.
As to the other, the empiricist, small-theory approach is gaining fans.
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But it is fun:
“Corollary 6: The hotter a scientific field (with more scientific teams involved), the less likely the research findings are to be true.”
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