Oct 12, 2026, 7:26 PMPlaying telephone with secondary citations is infuriating — made all the worse when you figure out everyone is actually citing an inbred fancy lad from 1876 who used a meager / unrepresentative sample, questionable methodology, and instruments about as accurate as eyeballing it. Then you realize we've spent 150 years misunderstanding something as basic as, oh, I don't know, the typical temperature of a healthy human being
Oct 12, 2026, 7:28 PMI know that's not the year Wunderlich published his paper. I know Wunderlich wasn't a noble. I'm taking literary liberties because there's an art to communication and the issue isn't unique to that example. In fact, this post was prompted by me trying to find the source of something else
Oct 12, 2026, 7:53 PM#GoodNews ! Progress is being made to address the replication crisis 🔥
"NIH is launching a new, agency-wide initiative to elevate replication and reproducibility studies as foundational to the conduct of gold standard science."
https://www.nih.gov/replicationandreproducibility