The Vast Majority of Raw Data From Old Scientific Studies May Now Be Missing

Looking more and more that Political Science tries to copy 1984 Novel’s destroying old data changing to new ‘correct’ …..
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Watts Up With That?

From the people that know how to save and care for things of importance, comes this essay from The Smithsonian:

One of the foundations of the scientific method is the reproducibility of results. In a lab anywhere around the world, a researcher should be able to study the same subject as another scientist and reproduce the same data, or analyze the same data and notice the same patterns.

This is why the findings of a study published today in Current Biology are so concerning. When a group of researchers tried to email the authors of 516 biological studies published between 1991 and 2011 and ask for the raw data, they were dismayed to find that more 90 percent of the oldest data (from papers written more than 20 years ago) were inaccessible. In total, even including papers published as recently as 2011, they were only able to track down the data…

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