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Secondly scientists are people too, just like the ones studied.. Everybody seems to overlook this fact. I disagree that people overlook that fact. Humans are c
by jeromec 16y ago
Secondly scientists are people too, just like the ones studied.. Everybody seems to overlook this fact.
I disagree that people overlook that fact. Humans are certainly not infallible, and that's why peer review is an important part of the process for confirming scientific discoveries and claims. That's what is so great about science; claimed results must be reproducible independent of the scientist, otherwise the claims are generally discarded.
- anamax 16y ago> I disagree that people overlook that fact. Humans are certainly not infallible, and that's why peer review is an important part of the process for confirming scientific discoveries and claims. Peer review compares to the literature and does some minor arithmetic checks. It rarely redoes the statistics, let alone verify that the measurements were real. That's part of why peer review is almost useless in detecting fraud. It has other failings as well. It is better than nothing.
- jeromec 16y agoI agree, but I meant peer review in an objective sense. There is nothing stopping anyone else from verifying their own measurements. The bigger and more unbelievable the claim, the more subject it is to scrutiny.