I thought this blog post and the ensuing comments were a fascinating perspective on the increasing problem of medical science not replicating.
"The Control Group is Out of Control" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/ > Trying to set up placebo science would be a logistical nightmare. You’d have > to find a phenomenon that definitely doesn’t exist, somehow convince a whole > community of scientists across the world that it does, and fund them to study > it for a couple of decades without them figuring out the gig. > > Luckily we have a natural experiment in terms of parapsychology – the study > of psychic phenomena – which most reasonable people don’t believe exists > but which a community of practicing scientists does and publishes papers on > all the time. > > The results are pretty dismal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
