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Wednesday Web Watch for September 24, 2014

Unscientific Science?  Molly Mirhashem, writing for the New Republic, discusses the problem of questionable scientific studies that erroneously receive unsubstantiated international recognition by virtue of having been published in “scientific” journals that do not put claims and data through sufficient examination and verification.   Mirhashem exposes one such study, originally published by the Public Library of Science and thereafter picked up by a slew of well-recognized and reputable news outlets.  One shudders to think of the repercussions such wide dissemination of suspicious, pseudoscientific assertions may have on a typically well-read and educated segment of society.