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In reply to the discussion: Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)3. What is interesting is that it is a study of the data submitted with the papers
not re-doing the experiments.
What is supposed to happen is that other researchers carry out similar, better designed experiments and verify in that manner. One famous experiment was Millikan's measurement of the charge on the electron (the oil drop experiment) where Millikan discarded large numbers of results for no good reason. But other experimentalists were able to carry out other tests. As it happened Millikan happened to be correct but, by the test used by Amigen, then this foundational paper would be too flawed.
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What is interesting is that it is a study of the data submitted with the papers
intaglio
Oct 2013
#3
I've often thought that a lot of research is flawed due to poorly designed experiments.
hedgehog
Oct 2013
#12
Some of that is ok, but the mercury in vaccines still isn't linked to Autism.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2013
#21
What I'd like is a real Health Industry, not the Disease Industry we have
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2013
#37
Your comment also, I would think, at applies to the poster upthread as well.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2013
#26
The standards for research & science are much higher now than when the original research was done.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2013
#19
There may have also been financial incentive for the failed earlier studies.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2013
#28