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> we understand on some level the work that goes into good science Meanwhile people who are informed on the state of actual science say "50% of published resea
by chordalkeyboard 6y ago
> we understand on some level the work that goes into good science
Meanwhile people who are informed on the state of actual science say "50% of published research is false."
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
- all_factz 6y agoI mean, as the paper says: > Second, most research questions are addressed by many teams, and it is misleading to emphasize the statistically significant findings of any single team. What matters is the totality of the evidence. I think few people would refute this.
- chordalkeyboard 6y ago> What matters is the totality of the evidence. If half of the evidence contradicts the other half would it be fair to conclude that we don’t know much about the things we have researched?