Article Timing Misstated in Report

Pfänder and Altay conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of 67 experimental articles, showing that people discern true from false news with ease. When making mistakes, people err on the side of skepticism and rate true news as false, instead of being fooled by false news.

In the end, facts and data cannot easily change beliefs and ideas that people have a strong emotional connection to, particularly when those beliefs are tied to a group identity. In an article published in Psychological Science, Igor Grossmann and his colleagues studied how training can help people deal with social conflicts by embracing characteristics that psychological scientists associate with wisdom, like intellectual humility and open-mindedness.

The phrase “an effective amount” has been held to be indefinite when the claim fails to state the function which is to be achieved and more than one effect can be implied from the specification or the relevant art. In reFredericksen, 213 F.2d 547, 102 USPQ 35 (CCPA 1954). The more recent cases have tended to accept a limitation such as “an effective amount” as being definite when read in light of the supporting disclosure and in the absence of any prior art which would give rise to uncertainty about the scope of the claim.

This article has been corrected. See PLoS Med. 2022 Aug 25;19(8):e1004085. See "Minimizing Mistakes and Embracing Uncertainty", e272. There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field.

One of the claims is that one more cup of coffee per day can reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes. The basis for this is that researchers have found a correlation between coffee drinking and fewer cases of Type 2 diabetes. The article does not say anything about the research, for example, the number of participants, nor anything about where the research was published.

An article on Tuesday about how Democratic lawmakers are seeking answers from the U.S. Treasury Department about Elon Musk’s possible role in dismantling a federal business accountability law misstated the time period during which the Corporate Transparency Act was passed.

President Trump moved the deadline to reopen the major transit route for oil tankers from Friday to April 6. Stocks fell sharply and oil prices rose.

Police detain Nerdeen Kiswani, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstration group "Within Our Lifetime" during a protest on Friday, April 12, 2024, in New York. Yuki Iwamura/AP hide caption toggle caption Yuki Iwamura/AP · March 27, 2026 • An official who was briefed on the investigation said Alexander Heifler, 26, identified as a member of the JDL 613 Brotherhood, which describes its membership as "Jewish warriors" fighting back against rising antisemitism.

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