@MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net
2024-08-21 22:22 UTC
@terri@social.afront.org
I will say this, even in the face of the comment that already exists here...
People like to say things like "science doesn't work" and then go on to name fraud, commercial interests and so on. Which is all true enough.
But when we find that "science doesn't work" it is because "science" itself found the errors. It was other researchers who tried to replicate, reanalyzed, looked at the books, etc to determine that the results were in question.
Figuring out that "science doesn't work" is part of the process of science. And Retraction Watch is an important part of that!
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@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca 2024-08-22 16:43
@MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net @terri@social.afront.org I will add that fraud, commercial interests, etc aren’t actually science, they are part of the all too human structures in which we embed science. People fail, science ultimately uncovers the failures.
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@KinkyTurtle@dragon.style 2024-08-23 14:06
@MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net @terri@social.afront.org Yes, that isn't science NOT working, that's science WORKING.
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@nicolaromano@qoto.org 2024-08-24 07:54
@MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net @terri@social.afront.org Yet, we don't teach students how to do science well. A lot of the bad practices that are behind "bad science" could be mitigated by better teaching of statistics, data analysis, experimental design etc.