Re:Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?
by exporectomy on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:23PM
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False results, yes, but it doesn't have to be due to mistakes but can also be due to innocent unlucky sampling.
If the effect is so strong that hardly ever happens, then it should also be so strong that there aren't many papers showing only a weak effect, but there's a huge amount of them. Maybe they're all botched but got published because their results agreed with the accepted idea whereas a contrarian botched paper would get more scrutiny and be rejected?
Maybe affect is so strong that to get opposite result you'd have to botch so many things that your chances of getting through peer review are so low that not a single wrongly successful research debunking this made it through peer review. Probably not many people are trying to debunk it and those that failed to prove it don't publish because people don't like publishing negative results.