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Yes! One politic is found to be corrupt, all politicians must be corrupt! One businessman implemented a fraud, down with captalism! One autistic child took seve
by pierrebai 11y ago
Yes! One politic is found to be corrupt, all politicians must be corrupt! One businessman implemented a fraud, down with captalism! One autistic child took several vaccine before being diagnosed. VAccine are the culprit!
I see, read, and hear these kind of argument all the times and they sadden me. I'm sure Snake-oil salesman, con artist and populist politicans salivates when reading how easily people dismiss things so easily.
Is the American Scientist article entirely wrong? No. Is even just that sideboard entirely off-track? No. It's probably a case of vulgarization gone too far.
But hey, baby, water, bath, plumbing, out the window you go.
- _dark_matter_ 11y agoHey, great job, you just took it to the other side of the spectrum! But seriously, it's a question of evidence, in every case you mentioned. The null hypothesis being "nothing is wrong", which you seem to be pointing at. There are definitely cases where the null hypothesis is NOT true, and needs to be rejected. To muse about whether the evidence is enough is surely an appropriate practice, which seems to be what the author is doing.