Best correction ever: “Unfortunately, the correct values are impossible to establish, since the raw data could not be retrieved.”

Commenter Erik Arnesen points to this:

Several errors and omissions occurred in the reporting of research and data in our paper: “How Descriptive Food Names Bias Sensory Perceptions in Restaurants,” Food Quality and Preference (2005) . . .

The dog ate my data. Damn gremlins. I hate when that happens.

As the saying goes, “Each year we publish 20+ new ideas in academic journals, and we appear in media around the world.” In all seriousness, the problem is not that they publish their ideas, the problem is that they are “changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.” And of course it’s not just a problem with Mr. Pizzagate or Mr. Gremlins or Mr. Evilicious or Mr. Politically Incorrect Sex Ratios: it’s all sorts of researchers who (a) don’t report what they actually did, and (b) refuse to reconsider their flimsy hypotheses in light of new theory or evidence.

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