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In reply to the discussion: Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity [View all]bemildred
(90,061 posts)It's hard to see outside the box when you live in the box, and the box is all the things you think you know, some of which are no doubt ludicrous, no matter who you are.
Hypotheses are easy to make up, common as dirt, plausible is a much bigger set than true. Good hypotheses look like nothing at first, but they grow on you when you think about them. Aha!
In fairness WRT the OP, it appears there we are dealing with situations where there is little or nothing to go on, where they just trying things. And again to be fair, it appears to me we are still very much in the data gathering stage of the development of our understanding of our biology, that we really lack the information still to truly understand how things work in much detail, so that sort of procedure is not an unreasonable way to proceed.
And I quite agree with saving all the data and results, it costs little and can pay off big. And a lot more public funding for research would fix some of this too.