Study on decision-making stokes controversy over power of distracted mind (2014)

The problem is that shocking unexpected results get a lot of press beacuse they are interesting of the public. But the retraction or refutation result get almost not coverage because it totally expected.

In physics the main example are "faster than light" and "massless thrusters". You get a few experimental results each year with very low precision measurements, and all the unsuccessful reproductions are almost silently ignored.