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Jan 13, 2021
@engexplain @nntaleb 1/10 Science is assumed to be “evidence-based” but that term alone doesn’t mean much. What constitutes good evidence? How is evidence being used? Is it supporting or refuting a hypothesis? Was the hypothesis and experimental desi
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Sean McClure
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2023
In Defense of Merit in Science
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David K Smith
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Dec 3, 2022
A recent exchange leaves me thinking about problems with how arguments are often conducted in science. I don’t know about you, but I quite often see people who I know to be very smart expressing or supporting scientific ideas that I suspect are fla
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Philip Ball
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Oct 20, 2022
It's a long read (I've spread it out over 24 hours!) but "A Vision of Metascience" by @michael_nielsen and Kanjun Qiu is well worth the time scienceplusplus.org/metascience/index.html
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Laurence Tratt
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Aug 27, 2022
You know what I don't want to ever hear again? A single complaint from anyone about how efforts to fix science publishing are going to affect their society or society journal. Because far more than anyone else it is scientific societies who are respo
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Michael Eisen #912238
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Jul 20, 2022
Been thinking about the meta of science. No one who runs the lab does not obsess endlessly about what is the best next experiment to do but what about the environment and culture of how we structure intellectual discourse in our lab? Lots of though
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Gord Fishell
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Mar 22, 2022
Fear-based models: The future only exists in math models and sims…many of which are programmed by academics seeking to prove a thesis and get money for prolonged research. Are you sure you can trust people who chase their tails and directly need fu
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C.J. Wilson
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Jul 1, 2021
The scientific method is based on the assumption that people think crazy stupid things all the time. It requires any "theory" which makes perfect sense in your head to be subject to "falsification". This means you use equations to make a prediction,
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Deeper Thrill
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