You are talking in generalizations --be specific! What research is in question, that would affect the population of the US and the world? Otherwise, I can't take your sense of alarm serious.

When we were in high school one of our best and most used life courses was Truth in Advertising, along with a civics class. Hopefully it is still being taught but looking at society now, I doubt it. Everyone should attempt to question data & do their own free thinking but without the conspiracy hoopla.

The Torah, however, is unchanged. It is, word for word, exactly as it was when someone first wrote it. While scholars and archeologists debate when exactly that was, the general consensus is that it was at least 150 years before the Christian Christ was alleged to have been born.

New Torahs for synagogues/templars are written by hand, and if there's even a single letter that isn't tilted exactly the correct way, the entire thing is scrapped and they have to start over again.

Wasn’t offered the former...but the latter, Civics, was one of my favorite and since abandoned for the most part. You knew every level of government....especially your local school boards and councils, and their elected members. It’s sad because most today can’t even tell you who their elected representatives are short of the presidency.

I don't think most "trust" what's published. Most papers are published for peer review, critique, compete, etc. They are meant for the professionals in that field. Reporters like to jump on things for their news. Anyone would be mistaken to trust that. I would think most folks take it as information on an evolving subject & change often like political polls.

Good solid studies are hard to come by. And even with the good ones it is well known in the world of statistics that one cannot rely on the results as being absolute. More good studies are needed to confirm.

It depends on where the work is being published and the discipline. The peer review process that my papers went through before being published in hard science journals was both extensive and lengthy. I suspect much of the retractions were in “softer” sciences. Regardless, this thread is essentially click bait meant to rile people up. I suspect the OP has never published a research paper.

"May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It" by Alex Edmans on Amazon

Unless you have had a class in statistics you may not know how to interpret what you hear and read. A good recent example were the efficacy numbers that were published with the first release of the COVID-19 vaccines. I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of people misinterpreted the numbers. There was no malicious intent by anyone. The developers speak a different language than non-researchers.

So if abc/nbc/cnn/msnbc/cbs and any of the other fake news channels say the same thing, then it’s true? All these fake news outlets get together each day to come up with the “theme” or “word” of the day to bash a person. It’s funny, you can watch 10 mins of each of these outlets during the day and see what the common “theme”/“word” is and I know millions of people believe this garbage.

My favorite Television source these days is News Nation.

I am tired of the three major networks and their opinions.

Bik
 

Google "Retraction Watch" and Elisabeth Bik for a good start. The fraud is embarrassingly and shockingly real.

Agree with above concerns. Also, there seems to be a greater trend over the years for use of meta-analyses (combining a bunch of studies in one heap in order to increase number of outcomes measured, which should yield more statistically significant results). It's also one way of publishing a paper without the time, expense, or aggravation of setting up or conducting a study of your own. The authors rarely select every study available on the subject, & are often treating very different study methods as equivalent. A meta-analysis will describe its study selection criteria & state potential sources of error up front & in detail. However, a diligent reader who wishes to determine if the results are credible must essentially duplicate most of the authors' data gathering process & actually read the articles they are citing. This can take hours, & is seldom done by people using the information to make decisions. A poorly designed study can live forever in meta-analyses. Will become even more common with AI.

agree, so concerned about the lack of morality/integrity today
 

mostly for the love of money & power

I don't think you should trust anyone! Doctors, lawyers, politicians, teachers, researchers ... nobody! Not even your pets. They aren't "kissing" you, they are tasting you. 😉 Just saying! 😏