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Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies

(www.nature.com)
246 points rntn | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 16:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.322s | source
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baxtr ◴[25 Apr 25 17:58 UTC] No.43796675[source]▶
I find it bizarre that people find this problematic.

Even Einstein tried to find flaws in his own theories. This is how science should actually work.

We need to actively try and falsify theories and beliefs. Only if we fail to falsify, the theories should be considered valid.

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1. maronato ◴[25 Apr 25 19:04 UTC] No.43797412[source]▶
These studies didn’t try to find theories, they tried to find results.

In your example, it’s the same as someone publishing a paper that disproves Relativity - only for us to find that the author fabricated the data.