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Is it "revisionism" if we find that previous conclusions were just plain wrong?
by netizen-936824 5y ago
Is it "revisionism" if we find that previous conclusions were just plain wrong?
- toyg 5y agoThe degree of wrongness is often overstated, because nobody will get promoted for admitting that the subject matter cannot be improved on.
- netizen-936824 5y agoThe first thought that comes to mind for me is the study of psychoactive drugs. I think its pertinent because of the relation to psychological and behavioral research. Cannabis was demonized for quite some time and people were producing research that backed up those claims, but most of that research was done extremely poorly, the best example of which is where monkeys were essentially suffocated with cannabis smoke (lack of oxygen kills neurons) and then they claimed that cannabis was the cause. There is a ton of research along these lines, especially when it comes to drugs of abuse. Most of the research that gets funded is specifically looking for downsides because that's the line that the regulatory agencies depend on and it produces crap like this. The degree of wrongness is quite intense in some fields of research, at least the perception of the body of work is so skewed and biased by not only what gets funded, but by the studies that are just plain wrong and people need to be aware of that.