By Simon Oxenham at big think.com. Just a subject that always fascinates me.
"The rise of the Internet has worked wonders for the public's access to science, but this has come with the side effect of a toxic combination of confirmation bias and Google, enabling us to easily find a study to support whatever it is that we already believe, without bothering to so much as look at research that might challenge our position — or the research that supports our position for that matter."
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/believe-it-or-not-most-published-research-findings-are-probably-false
