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It's sad that science denial is now the norm even on Hacker News.
by bjourne 5y ago
It's sad that science denial is now the norm even on Hacker News.
- watwut 5y agoFirst, nothing changed, HN people were always treating studies that way. And second, it is not scientific behavior to treat a single study as gospel. It is scientific when consensus emerges from many different studies and when those are reproduced and verified. Pearl clutching over "peer-review" mostly suggests people don't know what peer review can or can not do.
- jbuhbjlnjbn 5y agoThis specific study contradicts other studies before that came to a different conclusion. It's kind of a hen-egg problem, in which I firmly believe this study got it wrong. No "science denial". Questioning of this specific study and disregarding your appeals for authority.