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> "Weeding out" doesn't mean systematically suppressing. It does when I'm weeding my garden. A result that is weeded out of a journal is suppressed from taking
by hirundo 8y ago
> "Weeding out" doesn't mean systematically suppressing.
It does when I'm weeding my garden. A result that is weeded out of a journal is suppressed from taking root in the minds of its readers. I agree that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to accept. But as long as they meet the ordinary standard of rigor it's just those claims that inquiring readers want to entertain.
- thanatropism 8y agoThink of Thikonov regularization. Or the LASSO. The basic idea is to start with a prior that the world is uninteresting and let the evidence try to prove otherwise.
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