{"id":6317,"date":"2013-10-28T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2013-10-28T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:51:13","slug":"scientist-lost-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2013\/10\/scientist-lost-their-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist lost their way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times&#8217; Michael Hiltzik <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-hiltzik-20131027,0,3619480,print.column\">reports yesterday<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nResearchers are rewarded for splashy findings, not for double-checking accuracy. So many scientists looking for cures to diseases have been building on ideas that aren&#8217;t even true.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nA few years ago, scientists at the Thousand Oaks biotech firm Amgen set out to double-check the results of 53 landmark papers in their fields of cancer research and blood biology.<br \/>\nThe idea was to make sure that research on which Amgen was spending millions of development dollars still held up. They figured that a few of the studies would fail the test \u2014 that the original results couldn&#8217;t be reproduced because the findings were especially novel or described fresh therapeutic approaches.<br \/>\nBut what they found was startling: Of the 53 landmark papers, only six could be proved valid.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can confirm that finding.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times&#8217; Michael Hiltzik reports yesterday Researchers are rewarded for splashy findings, not for double-checking accuracy. So many scientists looking for cures to diseases have been building on ideas that aren&#8217;t even true. &#8230; A few years ago, scientists at the Thousand Oaks biotech firm Amgen set out to double-check the results of 53 landmark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2013\/10\/scientist-lost-their-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientist lost their way<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2091,1485,218],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-metrics","tag-quality","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}