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According to an article on PLOS Medicine, Most Published Research Findings Are False. Feynman provides an unsettling perspective on what's happened with research as well in Cargo Cult Science.
Have we done any better?
Those criticisms are largely irrelevant to 3 of the 4 sections, and the 4th is more history or applied statistics than science.