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Publication bias and the canonization of false facts doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… - important work from @CT_Bergstrom et al, HT @deevybee 
To the general problem of publication bias, I would add another sociological problem, where reviewers of papers in 'a field' all have a common interest in the subject of the field being a thing
In that case, peer review can become an exercise in collective confirmation bias. This is then compounded when the same people write authoritative reviews of 'the field", which become lore that others cite (w/o reading the primary papers)...
