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Ioannidis is Wrong Most of the Time https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/24/ioannidis-is-wrong/ https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/24/ioannidis-is-wrong/ > T
by nabla9 5y ago
Ioannidis is Wrong Most of the Time
https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/24/ioannidis-is-wrong/ https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/24/ioannidis-is-wrong/
> The main feature that distinguishes science and fiction is not that science is always right. Rather, science is superior because proper use of the scientific method allows for science to correct itself, when better data become available. In 2005, Ioannidis had no data and no statistical method to prove his claim. Fifteen years later, we have good data and a scientific method to test his claim. It is time for science to correct itself and to stop making unfounded claims that science is more often wrong than right.
- enkid 5y agoScience is always wrong, it's just about knowing that. That's what makes science great, it knows it is constantly being corrected, sometimes in big ways and sometimes in little ways, as we slowly get closer to "the truth." Reaching for that truth is the impossible objective. If we ever think that we have found the truth, that is when we have stopped doing science because we have stopped questioning. Put another way, science is about finding the next less wrong view of the world. It will still be wrong, but it will be less wrong.