>[N]onsense research...undermines the credibility of trial research in general, and makes it more difficult to recruit into trials. It propagates cynicism about research, and encourages people to believe that trials are only done as a sham marketing exercise.Ben Goldacre, writing in The Guardian (read more)

[T]oo often scientists seem to believe that an unsupported assertion accompanied by a PhD counts as evidence... Paul Browne, writing in The Scientist (read more)