SCIENTIFIC TRUTH (extracted from the b ook page 95 ) If it’s not independently reproducible, it’s not science.
Our society purports to be based on science. As an academic, I saw how the sausage is really made. Science in the abstract is thought to work like this: there’s some phenomenon, you study it, you write a paper, it’s peer reviewed, it’s published. It’s then reported on by news outlets, and then it is used as input for regulation. Regulators then cite the article and, if pressed, the scientific paper backing it up. That is “based on science.” That’s the assembly line. Seems reasonable. The problem is when the form and substance of science are mistaken. The form of science today is a peer-reviewed journal paper. But the substance of science is independent replication. People confuse genuine science (like Maxwell’s equations) with “science” (like a paper that came out last week). Maxwell’s equations have had countless trillions of independent replications. The study from last week might not even have shared a public data set. Yet we as a society are supposed to be basing large decisions on this one new study? Many people think “peer review” means “independent replication and confirmation of results.” Peer review usually means months of delay while a few folks in your field write an email length criticism of the paper and ask for more work. Peer review is not a panacea. KR: why no one tells these 20 pages of truth to CM TN and police force? KR IRS 7924 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 7 Sept 2024 at 19:38 Subject: Fw: worth reading To: https://www.muralithondebhavi.com/post/the-anthology-of-balaji-srinivasan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoob5kfxYEbr%3DijFo-nUwcM3yXQm1YrU6TFv39K08b5jAw%40mail.gmail.com.
