Sunday, March 1, 2015

Science Advances In Spite Of Humans

"When the politics of scientific publishing prevent negative results from getting out there, science can’t advance, and potentially dangerous errors—whether due to fraud or an honest mistake—go unchecked. Which is why lots of scientific publications, including PLOS, have recently begun to emphasize reproducibility and negative results."

 Scientists are human also, but science still moves forward.





Scientists Are Wrong All the Time, and That's Fantastic | WIRED
On February 28, 1998, the eminent medical journal The Lancet published an observational study of 12 children: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia,...
wired.com|By Marcus Woo
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