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> A research paper? Even those can be nonsense. An absense of research papers is far more frequently evidence of nonsense

• oldandtired 9y ago
  Not really. All the absence of research papers indicates is that the subject has not been considered to be worth the time or money to do research in the subject. There is only so much time and only so much money and as a consequence, priorities are made as to what it should be spent on. Even replication of results is not deemed worthy enough to spend time and money on. We see this often enough where papers detailing the replication of an experiment are simply ignored in the journals for that field. This comes up in discussion in so many different fora across the internet. If unlimited funds were available for research into all and every subject, there is still the lack of time and researchers available to do all of the research necessary. So what happens is that whoever has the most influence and the available funds and time gets to dictate what gets done. This means that for other research, it depends on the efforts of those who have a burning interest and motivation to do the study. I, myself, have a whole series of experiments that I want to undertake. it will have to be by my time and money as it is a subject that I especially want to investigate. But that is still dependent on all the other commitments that I have. I, at least, have a couple of young people who are willing to help with the research when I get it progressing. The particular area has much hype but no widely available experimental results to back up any claims from either side of the discussion. I am designing the series of experiments to try, as best as I can, to get as detailed results as possible for future possible experiments and direction of research. In my own study, I have found only three other groups around the world that have even looked into the subject with any sort of experimental detail.