Are most scientific studies screwed up?

[Rduke55]

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Also, I was hoping to hear that the crappiness of Science and Nature was just limited to astrophysics. That's actually disappointing to hear that it is more widespread. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Well, they certainly had their crap moments in neuroscience. Journals are funny in that changing just an editor or two can really change things dramatically. There are some other pretty good journals that have been going downhill recently (and others that have improved, too)

Add the fact that Science and Nature have a huge impact factor, extreme restrictions on space and figures, and enormous popularity with CNN, NYT, etc. and I don't see how you avoid them pandering and turning into the People magazine of science.