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Do you mean in the social sciences? The natural sciences are physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology. These fields of inquiry lend themselves to
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Do you mean in the social sciences? The natural sciences are physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology. These fields of inquiry lend themselves to empiricism. Mistakes/fraud happen, but it's a lot better than social science where empiricism is routinely rejected (straining the claim to even be science at all.)
- syockit 4y agoEven in hard sciences such as physics, there is a problem where not many researchers have access to instruments used in the published result, or even if they do, it's just too expensive to do it just to replicate (low return on investment).
- epolanski 4y agoNo I mean natural sciences too, I am a former photovoltaics researcher and know for a fact most articles in the field to be dubious. I have dedicated the first 4 months of my master thesis replicating an experiment wihich could not be replicated because I later found the author cooked the numbers declaring an open circuit voltage that was impossible to obtain.