It turns out that guesstimate was based on misquoting a researcher in a 1999 news article-not a result from any kind of peer-reviewed scientific study.

随后人们得知这个预言只是是基于错误引用了1999年发布的一篇文章中的调查者观点，并不是在经过仔细论证分析的科学研究基础之上的结论。

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The initial intention was to study how much peer pressure influences teenagers' decisions - which is why Berns' team chose music their subjects were unlikely to have heard before.

这个研究的最初的目的是研究同侪压力能在多大程度上影响青少年的决定，这也就是为什么Berns的团队选择那些研究对象们以前不太可能听到的歌曲的原因。

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This date, it turns out, wasn't based on a study appearing in a peer-reviewed science journal, but on an article published in the popular science magazine New Scientist a decade ago.

这一数据，并非来源于行业间认定的科学刊物研究，而是援引自一年前大众科学杂志 - 《新科学家》（New Scientist ）刊登的文章。

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The pesticide alarmism was debunked in July by an independent, peer-reviewed study by researchers at the University of California Davis.

FORBES: Cleaning Up The EWG's Dirty Dozen

He cited flaws in the design of the study that render any conclusions meaningless and asked whether the study passed peer review due to incompetence of the reviewers and editors or due to conflicts-of-interest among the former.

FORBES: Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer? The Diehards Cling Desperately To Opinion

Now, that is a fair and objective critique of a rigorous study that was peer-reviewed and approved for publication by two respected journals: Middle East Quarterly (already published) and Perspectives on Terrorism (soon to be published).

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