Posted on 02/25/2017 7:21:05 PM PST by combat_boots
Science is facing a "reproducibility crisis" where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests.
This is frustrating clinicians and drug developers who want solid foundations of pre-clinical research to build upon.
From his lab at the University of Virginia's Centre for Open Science, immunologist Dr Tim Errington runs The Reproducibility Project, which attempted to repeat the findings reported in five landmark cancer studies.
"The idea here is to take a bunch of experiments and to try and do the exact same thing to see if we can get the same results."
You could be forgiven for thinking that should be easy. Experiments are supposed to be replicable.
The authors should have done it themselves before publication, and all you have to do is read the methods section in the paper and follow the instructions.
Sadly nothing, it seems, could be further from the truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
See the only ‘scientists’ that get the experiment to ‘work’ are the ones paid to get it to ‘work’, or to support the hypothesis they desire to be true.
Not surprising. Liberal socialists love the end justifies the means.
Publish or perish.
Research grants.
Towering academic egos.
It’s a recipe for disaster.
Miss Yakamoto??? LOL for the reference.
Experiments are supposed to be replicable.
The authors should have done it themselves before publication
One of the most prodigious researchers at the Department of Immunology at the University of Tennessee faked and forged much of his data. Because he was granted so much money for his HSV I and HSV II research his falsification of data was ignored by the administration and faculty. I’d bet no one could replicate half of his data if they tried.
I got a chance to work in a biology lab in college for extra money. Though I am not a biologist I did get an appreciation that experiments can be tricky and complex to pull off, and it takes a certain amount of experience and patience with techniques to actually perform the experiment the way its supposed to be performed.
Well Said!
Sort of related: a great explanation of what Google is capable of.
The Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME) and Its Unparalleled Power To Influence How We Think.
From Stanford:
Full version: https://youtu.be/TSN6LE06J54
(This guy uses the phrase “mind control” at Stanford referring to Google!)
Shorter version: https://youtu.be/BmpFdVZIej0
Oh, they’ll continue to use up grant money to push leftist agendas, til it runs out. Who okays research grant money in the government? Something tells me that at least a good portion of those grants will not be continued.
Below is a link to a report I like on the subject. It can be painful for people not in good shape mathematically. I now must include myself in that group, because retirement places me 20 years from exercising my brain in that area.
In general, what the article says is that people overstate the legitimate information that can be gained from the data. Statisticians probably don’t get a subsequent phone call to participate in another study, if they say analysis of data won’t support the conclusion the researcher wants.
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
Yeah. Let's give it all up.
You can donate your fake computer, cars, and drugs to whomever you want but I'll take your fake money.
Zackly! ;-)
Sounds like.... wait for it.... #FakeScience
Is that why I’ve been reading about a miracle cure for cancer since I was 8 in 1976?
The first study showed a miracle and the subsequent ones didn’t?
Just wondering.
SO MANY incredible cures have been reported and then never heard about again since I was a lad.
I know cancer is big money business but so would a cure be for an individual or company.
I know it didn’t used to be that way, but I do fear that over time, competition for money has probably been a factor in reproducibility. (In my early years, I was a researcher. My experience then has led me to believe that global warming research is all bull hockey.)
That means that whole bunches of highly disciplined, disinterested thus unbiased scientists in white lab coats (the kind seen on t.v. commercials and 0bama White House Affordable Car Act promos) have already replicated the results!",
Science is BS now, its very sad
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