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It's interesting how policies like fluoridation of water are accepted at face value assuming the highest of scientific / statistical rigor was used to justify t
by lootsauce 7y ago
It's interesting how policies like fluoridation of water are accepted at face value assuming the highest of scientific / statistical rigor was used to justify them. Of course that is not the case. Yet it requires just that, not common sense, to even question the practice in a manner that people will not consider somehow off-kilter. Our faith in authorities is stronger than ever, while the scientific community struggles with our basic ability to reproduce much of the research we even today cite is rigorous even ground-breaking.
- geggam 7y agoInteresting you get downvoted for stating we should question everything to include authority. Thought science was all about questioning and reconfirming truth as more knowledge is obtained
- lootsauce 7y agoI think that we are in for a new renaissance of scientific discovery as we grapple with all of the issues related to the reproducibility crisis. It will lead to better statistics, better science and more useful results. Untill then we will have people arguing with the authority of their position and "because science"
- wysifnwyg 7y agoIf you took a look at the study and the margin of error for their results, you'd notice that the margin of error has an overwhelming overlap.