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A hotter field with more teams racing on the same question produces less reliable findings, not more.

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metascience Research about research: whether published findings hold up, and what makes a field more or less reliable.

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  1. John Ioannidis Professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford
    The hotter a scientific field (with more scientific teams involved), the less likely the research findings are to be true.

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