"Do not question science!” ©ï¸

"The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s largest funder of medical re- search. In early 2014 it issued a statement that began by citing a lengthy Economist news story titled ‘Trouble at the lab’. According to the news story, tens of billions of dollars are spent on medical research each year, yet an unidentified NIH official ‘reckons, despairingly, that researchers would find it hard to reproduce at least three- quarters’ of published medical findings.
By calling attention to the news story without disputing the above statistic, Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, all but shouted from the rooftops that 75% of medical research is unreliable – a shocking state of affairs. In his words: ‘the checks and balances that once ensured scientific fidelity’ have collapsed.”