> This reminds me of: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refut... What an e

> This reminds me of: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refut... What an excellent essay. I especially liked: > There are many “questions” that are pretty much settled – evolution, global warming, homeopathy. But taking these as representative closes your mind and gives you a skewed picture of academia. On many issues, academics are just as divided as anyone else, and their arguments can be just as acrimonious as anyone else’s. The arguments usually take the form of one side publishing a study, the other side ripping the study apart and publishing their own study which they say is better, and the first side ripping the second study apart and arguing that their study was better all along.