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Or, to put it another way: A study which has not passed peer review made an outlandish claim, one which anyone can verify is false just by boiling their tap wat
by jimrandomh 7y ago
Or, to put it another way: A study which has not passed peer review made an outlandish claim, one which anyone can verify is false just by boiling their tap water and inspecting the sediment. Flagged, and also I no longer trust Reuters to do simple factual reporting.
- coldtea 7y agoIf the study just studied YOUR tap water, then yes, a counter-experiment of the sort will refute it. Else you could be the unscientific outlier, thinking you've shot a study down with a sample of one -- whereas you could e.g. be on one fortunate district with really clean water supply.