Amen. You can google the controversy around the StatCheck program to really dive into why stats and their applications are beyond lies and damned-lies in their

Amen. You can google the controversy around the StatCheck program to really dive into why stats and their applications are beyond lies and damned-lies in their falsehoods (because you can prove the lie is right). Doing something as simple as smoking causes cancer is a very very simple experiment to interpret (hard to fund/preform though). It's the pernicious little studies on 8 cells total that get messy. Preforming a lot of experiments is hard. I knew of a student that graduated with only 8 cells of data out of his 7 years in grad school. That may sound like a small amount, but to his committee, it was a very impressive number. He (very very) basically sliced up adult rodent brains and then used super tiny glass pipettes to poke the insides of certain cells. He chemically altered these cells' insides in a hopefully intact network of neurons, shocked the cells, and then recorded the activity of other cells in the network using the same techniques. Then he preserved and stained the little brain slice so he could confirm his results anatomically. From start to finish, it took him 13 hours total, no lunch or restroom breaks, every day, for 7 years. He got 8 confirmable cells worth of recordings total. That is a hard experiment. But due to his efforts in adding evidence we now suspect that most adult hearing loss is not due to loss of cells in the ear, but in the coordination of signals to the brain and their timing mis-match. It is not much, bu it adds to the evidence and will for sure help out people someday. To add, he is now a beer brewer in Bavaria and quit science. This shit takes sacrifice man.