Not admitted · Vague or promotional
Rules 1.1.0 · as of 14 Sep 2026
Owen Scott Muir · Said 9 Jun 2024 · owen-1074
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Vague or promotional
“Much of it is beyond bad writing—that is, the published results will not turn out to replicate! It’s factually false.”
Opening of an essay on Ioannidis and publication bias: the author asserts that much of the published science he reads for the newsletter is false and will fail to replicate, citing the STAR*D reanalysis as an example.
No entity, observable event, benchmark or threshold can be written from the text and its immediate context. Slogans ('game changer', 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity', 'favourite stock') and quantifiers with no countable set ('more', 'first', 'all') without a defined set.