Asking the neuroscience community here. Trying to find an article...
There was an article in around the year 2000 or so that was a review of the LTP brain slice literature in the previous decade. It had a table which I vividly remember that was three columns: column 1 was the molecule, column 2 was the journal it was identified as being involved, and column 3 was the journal it was refuted in. The citations were not just numbers. The point of the table was that column 2 was all glamour mags and column 3 were not. And then I remember this snarky sentence that was something like ... "the reliability of the result is inversely related to the Nature of the Science involved" with "nature" and "science" in italics. I think it was PNAS or TINS or the like. But I can't find it! This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions much appreciated!
I'm obviously misremembering something (the journal, the authors, the date, maybe even the topic?). Does anyone have any idea what I'm remembering?
PS. Importantly, the article I am thinking of is not Sanes and Lichtman NNsci 1999, which is what all my searches (normal websearch, personal journalsearch, and AI) are pushing. The page format is completely different.
#LTP #neuroscience #replicability
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