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2017-02-25 Science & Technology

Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-25 04:22|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Experiments are supposed to be replicable.

Oh, come on, that was in the racist homophobe white patriarchy Western Civilization model. In the era of the modern ~~Soviet Man~~ person, it's all about feelings not reason. If you feel it should have come out as you wanted, it does.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-25 08:21|| 2017-02-25 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 More proof that the so called "Science" peddled by the left is just garbage.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-25 10:44|| 2017-02-25 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Experiments are supposed to be replicable.

You don't get grant money for replicating experiments.

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-25 12:10|| 2017-02-25 12:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I suspect the replicability problem arises from drawing conclusions from small data variations and believing they are meaningful even though the variations are less than the level of uncertainty. We think we know more than we know.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-02-25 13:04|| 2017-02-25 13:04|| Front Page Top

#5 You mean there is now Fake Science?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-02-25 13:14|| 2017-02-25 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I suspect the main problem is medical doctors doing research who don't understand how to run a proper double blind experiment, and a few other things like confirmation bias.

Posted by phil_b 2017-02-25 14:17|| 2017-02-25 14:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Think there may be a cross-field issue.

People might not be expert in all of the sub-sets of the project space and misinterpret what they're seeing.

I'm old enough to remember Cold Fusion. Turned out that the Chemists who did the original project didn't fully understand all the nuances of the particle physics that were involved. In that case science worked properly and all data and methods were made available to others to replicate the results..........

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-25 14:42|| 2017-02-25 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 AlanC, Cold Fusion is probably not a good example. F&P found a real phenomena, replicated dozens of times since. Their error was to attribute it to 'fusion' and not realize impurities in their Platinum was crucial to the experiment working. Which was why initial attempts at replication failed.

Posted by phil_b 2017-02-25 19:58|| 2017-02-25 19:58|| Front Page Top

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