i know i've not posted in quite a long time, but this was so unbelievable that i couldn't help but put it up.
Well, maybe "unbelievable" is completely the wrong word.
I think it's actually quite believable, and proof-positive that scientists are as subjective as the rest of us. This is such a shoddy example of the scientific method that it brings the whole community into suspicion (as though they were somewhere else).
Thoughts? Am i wrong?
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- jared james
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To extrapolate from one group of scientists, about the body of scientists as a whole, and all the many branches and subjects thereof, is illogical. Is this group of scientists being subjective? I don't believe so. They're drawing the conclusions they see from the information they have available to them. Is it complete? No. Will there be more studies to validate or invalidate this? Absolutely.
As to their methods: I'd have to read the actual article to see how their conclusions were drawn. Furthermore, we aren't reading the article itself, but a reporter's take on the article. The reporter may have gleaned the information he wanted from the article, and neglected others. There's too long an information chain present to discriminate against the scientists themselves.
oh, brother. i'm with you. these studies will always have a slant of one kind or another because the researchers are people. and people have motives. and people are fallible.
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