How science goes wrong是那期周刊的封麵文章。

Last year researchers at one biotech firm, Amgen, found they could reproduce just six of 53 “landmark” studies in cancer research.


Earlier, a group at Bayer, a drug company, managed to repeat just a quarter of 67 similarly important papers.

A leading computer scientist frets that three-quarters of papers in his subfield are bunk.


In 2000-10 roughly 80,000 patients took part in clinical trials based on research that was later retracted because of mistakes or improprieties.所以不到死馬當活馬醫的時候，不要去參加藥物試驗。