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The point of the article I think is that while many criticisms of a piece of research are valid, they are not necessarily meaningful. Because of their validity
by SubiculumCode 5y ago
The point of the article I think is that while many criticisms of a piece of research are valid, they are not necessarily meaningful. Because of their validity (despite being not meaningful), such criticisms can be weaponized to undermine any piece of research that does not fit your worldview...indeed, I see this regularly on HN...which is why I posted the article.
- caddemon 5y agoI don't necessarily see a problem with this on an n of 1 scale. Strongly held priors are not going to be updated by a single piece of research, and for the most part I don't feel they should be. Single studies in biology these days are pretty much never good enough to justify that. If over time many studies build up that's a different story. Perhaps there should be more review articles on HN rather than the focus on original research reports.