RE: Do You Believe in Science? 🔭
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Yes, I think again this is what we should be doing - always questioning. It doesn't mean science should be outright dismissed, because sometimes valuable funding MUST be sought - that's not a bad thing if there are checks and measures. But we can't just dismiss all science.
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I guess my point is that much of what is being quoted as 'The Science' these days hasn't been a product of the Scientific Process. The Science that results from those actually using the Scientific Process should be taken seriously. Most of the Science today comes from meta analysis' of bulk topic studies, which follows much looser standards.
Yeah and there are a heap of cases where research has been poorly done yet is accepted as truth. There's one, for eg, about how women who adopt a power pose can have higher levels of testosterone and be more successful - this has been going for years and people believe it, but they redid the studies and there was no correlation at all. SOOOO many egs like that - yet once these ideas are in the popular consciousness (vaccines cause autism) they become runaway trains, even if people find out they are dubious/untrue - the myth making becomes very pervasive.