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Folks may have seen this also in the Economist a few months back:
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble
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From: Informal Science Education Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eli Kuslansky
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Subject: Re: NYTimes: New Truths That Only One Can See
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tricky universe we have
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Charles Carlson < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Here's a nice news article highlighting some of the difficult, to
> almost impossible nature of doing reproducible science. It builds off
> of some of the work that's come out in the scientific community in
> recent years. It further highlights the importance of data, and access
> to it by others. The difficult nature of creating reproducibly robust
> results is the primary reason most findings and conclusions are half
> right, half the time, and so situationally dependent.
>
> We like to delude ourselves into thinking that the impossible sigmas
> of validation are different between for particle physics as opposed to
> the social sciences, but perhaps it's not the case, as much as we'd
> like to think it is.
>
> Enjoy,
> C
>
> http://nyti.ms/1f6I0Kq
>
> Replication, the gold standard of science, can help affirm the truth
> of a discovery, but it is getting harder all the time, raising
> questions about findings and unconscious bias.
>
>
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