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Comment by elashri

There is at least one thing wrong about this. This is an essay about a paper published a simulation based scenarios in medical research. It then try to generalize to "research" and avoid this very narrow support to the claim. I think this is something true and it should make us more cautious when deciding based on single studies. But things are different in other fields.

Also this is called research. You don't know the answer before head. You have limitations in tech and tools you use. You might miss something, didn't have access to more information that could change the outcome. That is why research is a process. Unfortunately common science books talks only about discoveries, results that are considered fact but usually don't do much about the history of how we got there. I would like to suggest a great book called "How experiments end"[1] and enjoy going into details on how scientific conscious is built for many experiments in different fields (mostly physics).

[1] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo596942...

parent elashri 2 years ago

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