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There's a huge difference between saying "there's more than one side to the story" and saying "all sides are equally valid". Similarly, there's a huge differenc
by gweinberg 8y ago
There's a huge difference between saying "there's more than one side to the story" and saying "all sides are equally valid". Similarly, there's a huge difference between saying " scientists must make value judgments, if only to decide what is important or interesting" and saying "it's all subjective".
As scientists we are supposed to be trying to answer questions. If we've decided in advance what the answer should be, and that we'll spin the data to get the preconceived result if possible and bury the result if it isn't what we wanted, we're not doing science, we're doing antiscience masquerading as science. There is a lot of that out there.
- DennisAleynikov 8y agoThis. And ultimately to prove the record of scientific knowledge we need reproducible data that can be independently confirmed. Its entirely possible and common to do science wrong and that's kinda the point. To try and find truth and then corroborate claims with other researchers. Science is always a best guess until a better guess comes along.