> They look more like studies where authors have gone into the study with a conclusion already in mind and were very sure they would find they were right and willing to ignore anything that conflicts their idea.

Ironically, while this appears widespread in scientific pubs, it was rejected in a court of law:

> While anybody is free to approach a scientific inquiry in any fashion they choose, they cannot properly describe the methodology as scientific, if they start with the conclusion and refuse to change it regardless of the evidence developed during the course of the investigation. 

McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education, Decision by U.S. District Court Judge William R. Overton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLean_v._Arkansas

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