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If no one says anything, then is there any motivation for it to get any better? Is the article is totally wrong or can it be translated into a problem statement
by rbrogan 12y ago
If no one says anything, then is there any motivation for it to get any better? Is the article is totally wrong or can it be translated into a problem statement whose solution is an improvement? IMO, it is equivalent to a user complaint about a software product. Possibly science researchers would not be the ones to solve the problem, but rather science journalists (I don't know). But still, if the public devalues the results of scientific research due to lack of confidence then that could conceivably result in less funding for scientific endeavors and less scientific progress.
- mcphage 12y ago> Is the article is totally wrong or can it be translated into a problem statement whose solution is an improvement? The article isn't totally wrong, but I think reflects a misunderstanding on how science works, and where the problem actually lies. What the author describes is (generally) science working as intended, but it doesn't mesh well with bite-size news headlines. You can think of it in terms of a leaky abstraction, if you want. People think of science as a relentless progression of improvement, but that's an abstraction that leaks when you react to ideas coming out of it too quickly.