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Is this a correlating effect with the fact that a large number of published scientific results are botched? If researchers are not allowed to do good science th
by fsloth 10y ago
Is this a correlating effect with the fact that a large number of published scientific results are botched? If researchers are not allowed to do good science they are no more progressive than the augur reading from the entrails of a fish.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt isn't just poorly done research. In many cases it is simply difficult to design a study that can reasonably evaluate a treatment. The article discusses a cancer vaccine at length, pointing out that the ethics of providing known effective treatment basically obliterate the ability to evaluate the vaccine. It's concerning that the vaccine was approved despite the problems with the study, but they also can't have people agreeing to die in order to increase the statistical power of their results.
- crpatino 10y agoYou make it sound like the entrails of the fish do not have anything to tell you...