Losin' My Religion

"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue." So writes Richard Horton in The Lancet.

"Can bad scientific practices be fixed?" he continues. "Part of the problem is that no-one is incentivised to be right. Instead, scientists are incentivised to be productive and innovative." The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue." 
That sounds like a description of a business. The Lancet is the leading British medical journal and Horton is its editor. This is a horrific observation, if true. And is reminiscent of Eisenhower's warning of the government-research partnership. Much of the popular debate in modern science has this unspoken background, the basic mistrust of modern scientific technique and motive. It colors all modern science and is the foundation of the global warming debate. This is a crisis of the proportion of Galileo. Some stringency, some context must be applied to scientific research otherwise science's foundation will become a matter of faith.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960696-1/fulltext