This thread is now ancient but it may still be worth posting the results of a recent study titled, *A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning.* It's not exactly a war story but it does illustrate the rampant errors inherent in published, peer reviewed papers. http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13077658/statcheck-psychology-replication