On 10 June 2014 10:26, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/9/2014 7:38 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: > >> 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. >> > > A big part of the problem is that theories are being tested just by > experiment and statistics. This happens in parapsychology and to a lesser > degree in medicine because there is no established background of theories > that the new theory must mesh with. For comparison look at how the > Tronnies theory is treat on this forum. No one asks how many positive > results have been replicated.
I asked for testable predictions, but most of the ones I got weren't actually predictions, just restatements of the theory. You can't get a positive result until you know what the theory predicts! -- 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.
