When few survive to tell the story, survivorship bias can make the deadliest diseases the easiest to overlook.

Granville D. Austin, reflecting on survivorship bias in funding medical research

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Missing what’s missing: How survivorship bias skews our perception | David McRaney | TEDxJackson

Publication bias and the canonization of false facts – An interesting paper that models how an inordinate publishing of positive results can result in false positives eventually being accepted as factual, an occurrence that can have harrowing ramifications.

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