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Trusting data and data being objective >Right now I absolutely want to see papers written by physicists studying COVID-19. Why - because physics is a significa
by avs733 7y ago
Trusting data and data being objective
>Right now I absolutely want to see papers written by physicists studying COVID-19. Why - because physics is a significantly more rigorous field than epidemiology. I trust the average physicist to have at least slightly higher standards, for instance I trust them to at least pretend to care about statistical uncertainty, and I suspect many of them will upload their source code. I don't expect any of them to email their paper straight to known-friendly newspapers. (from your other post)
Is a really...bad idea. Let's not presume knowledge transfers from one discipline to another, that standards look the same, or that Alan Sokal was anything other than an egomaniac.