> Second, the growing use of meta-analyses, which combine results across studies, has started to make clear that the tendency not to publish negative results gives misleading impressions.
Mark Crislip, host of PusCast, has made a few good wisecracks on this subject. Perhaps the most poetic is (paraphrasing here): "When you mix cow pie and apple pie, you do not make the cow pie better. You make the apple pie worse."
Mark Crislip, host of PusCast, has made a few good wisecracks on this subject. Perhaps the most poetic is (paraphrasing here): "When you mix cow pie and apple pie, you do not make the cow pie better. You make the apple pie worse."