Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies

https://www.science.org/content/article/medical-students-are-using-popular-research-tool-pump-out-misleading-studies

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yellerbadger@piefed.social · 1 pts · 82d

The issue is that medical students are incentivized to crank out publications because academic programs look at number of citations. Also, medical students don't get much statistical training, hardly any compared to their graduate student counterparts.