Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations

Re:Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations by coldtea on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:38AM (#19959747)

Often the studies showing your argument is "incorrect/poorly supported" are poorly supported themselves, and just go uncontested for decades, piling citations.

And that's on harder sciences. In soft sciences (and liberal arts, etc) it's the wild west -- what gets more grants and is more popular at the moment gets priority and is "proved".

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Re:Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations by wallace_f on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:22AM (#19960039)

Yea... People have been even hoaxing journals for decades and it goes ignored. This scheme got some attention, probably just for how hilarious it is that they published a chapter of mein kampf in one of the leading feminist journals of gender studies: https://youtu.be/fvZNXRiAsn4

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