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And certainly not liars

Investigation fails to replicate most cancer biology lab findings

It’s not just cancer research that’s often bogus:

Pseudosciences like psychology are just as bad

One factor encouraging that, Nosek suggests, is researchers' desire for publication. Succeeding in academia means regularly publishing work, and novel results — rather than reproductions of older results or results that fail to establish a correlation — are far more likely to make it into prestigious journals. "If this occurs on a broad scale, then the published literature may be more beautiful than reality," Nosek says.