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Re: Broken Science- a lot of published research is false.

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> http://theweek.com/articles/618141/big-science-broken
> 
> http://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/05/scientific-regress
> 
> Broken Science- a lot of published research is false.
> 
> false
> fôls/
> adjective
> adjective: false; comparative adjective: falser; superlative adjective: falsest
> 
>     1.
>     not according with truth or fact; incorrect.
>     "the test can produce false results"
>     synonyms:   incorrect, untrue, wrong, erroneous, fallacious, flawed, distorted, inaccurate, imprecise; untruthful, fictitious, concocted, fabricated, invented, made up, trumped up, unfounded, spurious;
>     counterfeit, forged, fraudulent
>     "a false report"
>     antonyms:   correct, truthful
>         not according with rules or law.
>         "false imprisonment"
>     2.
>     appearing to be the thing denoted; deliberately made or meant to deceive.
> 
> incorrect, untrue, wrong, erroneous, fallacious, flawed, distorted, inaccurate, imprecise; untruthful, fictitious, concocted, fabricated, invented, made up, and
> meant to deceive.
> 
> and i have to get through all your fuckin garbage!
> 
> Get on a rocket, and get the fuck out-of-my-planet!!!!
> 
> You got fuckin 24 hours! I don't give a fuck if your rocket ship isn't ready! Let it fukin blow up wit yous in it.
> 
> everyday is fuckin garbage from yous guys....EVERYDAY!
> 
> you can fukin drown in your space suits!

and take your stupid teachers with you! (tell them the odds of the ship
blowing up is a billion to one) (more false info, isn't it?)


"the scientific method has "self-correcting mechanisms" that ensure
that, eventually, the truth will prevail. 
Unfortunately for all of us, Wilson makes a convincing argument that
those self-correcting mechanisms are broken."

http://theweek.com/articles/618141/big-science-broken


it's broken.


don't bother to fix it, it's too old...

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