Limits of the scientific method
10 Jan 2011 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firecat"The Truth Wears Off: Is there something wrong with the scientific method?" by Jonah Lehrer
...all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable. This phenomenon doesn’t yet have an official name, but it’s occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology.
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Date: 11 Jan 2011 10:20 am (UTC)I posted a while back about an article focusing on Dr. Ioannidis (mentioned in the New Yorker article). It discusses some of the less subtle pressures that skew data, although doesn't discuss fraud so much.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/