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RE: Spin, Hype and Replication Problems in Scientific Research
Good read. There is too much bias in science. Lots of scientists and researchers don’t truly employ the scientific method and go into a research situation and identify their biases and be wary of them.
There’s also the refusal of science to be scientists in many situations; if a thousand scientists look at a topic and come to a similar conclusion and 5 new ones challenge the preconceived notion that the others state they are ridiculed. As a scientist you are supposed to constantly look at information and analyze it for improvement.
Yup. That seems to be the case for many things. Climate change (formerly known as global warming) not caused by humans? Nah. It's 100% proven science. Those are just climate-deniers ... :/
That may be where we disagree perhaps; I am aware that we as humans certainly have an effect on the climate of the planet. That I don’t have trouble with, what I have trouble with is the amount of effect we have. I don’t think it’s as cataclysmic as they want you to believe. It goes along the lines of keeping people scared and fearful when I think of how they hype it up. I personally think that we are to be blamed for maybe 15-20% of the way it’s changing; the planet is quite old and has gone through many changes in its time. We simply do not have the knowledge to say. They can look at tree rings, mud samples, Arctic ice samples but it remains that we did not have the recording devices that we do now back then. It’s speculation as to the exact degree of what happens.
Back to my previous comment, there is no 100% proven science. The entire basis of the scientific method is to reanalyze data continuously to look for changes and new understandings. If we just say, as is far too often the case, that it’s done then we fail as a scientific community. Break throughs and revelations happen when people challenged the norms of the day. Today is no different, we need to be continually challenging ourselves by putting aside our preconceived notions and think objectively.
Just my opinion of course, but I see it all too often with the major sciences of today and it’s a shame, we can’t learn as a society if we aren’t willing to uncover a falsity or half truth that we all accepted because that’s what we were taught/told/indoctrinated to.