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The number of high profile research reversals over the past decade or so has been extraordinary. At this point, I'm forced to regard most published findings as
by quotemstr 7y ago
The number of high profile research reversals over the past decade or so has been extraordinary. At this point, I'm forced to regard most published findings as simply false unless strongly supported by intuition and repeated studies. More and more, I feel like the process of science has decided all the "signal" the natural world is giving us and that now we're just interpreting noise, at least as it pertains to studies on people.
- thrower123 7y agoThere's an astounding amount of nonsense popularized in mass media where they take the results of these studies and promote it as the gospel truth, without noting the caveats - tiny sample size, only studied in mice, effect sizes, etc, etc. By the time the game of telephone has relayed the story to the public via the local TV news puff piece, it has been distorted so heavily that it becomes complete nonsense.