By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: July 7, 2016
I’ve seen several articles about major software bugs (and a lack of testing) recently, and one of them is related to MRI/fMRI image processing. From this article at theregister.co.uk:
When you see a claim that “scientists know when you're about to move an arm: these images prove it”, they're interpreting what they're told by the statistical software.
A whole pile of “this is how your brain looks like” fMRI-based science has been potentially invalidated because someone finally got around to checking the data.