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Is science good (or "the best!") if the available data are not sufficient to verify the analysis? This is not a "world leader" doing anything that could be desc
by microcolonel 8y ago
Is science good (or "the best!") if the available data are not sufficient to verify the analysis? This is not a "world leader" doing anything that could be described as "shunning science".
- vkou 8y agoI don't know. Is Newton's work worthless, because we no longer have access to the full set of raw data that he based it off? There are thousands of old studies for which the data is unavailable, incomplete, was lost, etc. Are you going to pay for all of them to be reproduced? Are you ready to give up penicillin? Surgeons washing their hands between operations? The links between tobacco and cancer? Every single medical advancement (Because patient confidentiality precludes the release of raw data that goes into medical studies)? I'm all for reproducibility, but this has enormous consequences.