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“If you can write it up and get it published you’re not even thinking of reproducibility,” said Ken Kaitin, director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.”You make an observation and move on. There is no incentive to find out it was wrong.”
Now where have we heard this before? “The science is settled!” Al Gore would be proud.
What’s interesting is how both conservatives and liberals are only selectively open to the possibility of widespread misinformation. Conservatives understand that global warming is a farce, but many have unshakable faith in allopathic medicine. Liberals distrust allopathic medicine but believe 100% in global warming.
You’d think that evidence of one would beget questions of the other.
“What’s interesting is how both conservatives and liberals are only selectively open to the possibility of widespread misinformation. Conservatives understand that global warming is a farce, but many have unshakable faith in allopathic medicine. Liberals distrust allopathic medicine but believe 100% in global warming.”
Excellent point. With regards to medicine, in discussion boards I frequent, many have an almost religious devotion to either the allopathic or holistic approach. IMO, the most productive approach is a rational selection of the best of what both have to offer.