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There is no easy way to tell whether something is real or pseudoscience. A lot of things that we consider real today where perceived as pseudoscience in their t
by tmalsburg2 8y ago
There is no easy way to tell whether something is real or pseudoscience. A lot of things that we consider real today where perceived as pseudoscience in their time. Science is largly a gigantic collection of dead ends that look silly in hindsight and finding out what's good science and what's not is an integral part of the scientific process. The idea that there can be a science of just Newtons, Einsteins, and Feynmans is naive.
- viridian 8y agoThe problem is that replication studies are almost nonexistent for most discoveries. Science is to some extent a business, and very few people with a budget have any interest in allocating resources to replicating the work someone else did, for no to little gain.
- oldgradstudent 8y agoIf it's not reproducible it's not science. If you p-hacked your way into a statistically significant result, it is not science. You don't have to be Einstein. Even Einstein wasn't Einstein most of the time. But the results you do get must be reproducible.