Not breaking news: many scientific studies are ultimately proved wrong!
Most theories are eventually consigned to the rubbish heap, but this is scientific business as usual.
Dr Sylvia McLain (who runs a biophysics research laboratory in Oxford) responds to John Ioannidis, professor of medicine at Stanford who recently published a report in PLOS Medicine entitled "Why most published research findings are false".
CiarĂ¡n Quinn, Research Librarian, Maynooth University. ciaran.quinn@mu.ie
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