Wow, this is quite stunning to read. He actually baldly states that the only reason for experimenting is to confirm what you already believe, and that you shoul

Wow, this is quite stunning to read. He actually baldly states that the only reason for experimenting is to confirm what you already believe, and that you should therefore just do as many experiments as it takes to 'prove' yourself correct, hide evidence of the failures and then stop - forever. This was linked from the article, BTW - and the responses they also linked to are dead on: http://mchankins.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/do-not-replicate http://mchankins.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/do-not-replicate http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/1102.html http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/1102.ht...