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Failure in real science is good – and different from phony controversies

 

Real scientific controversies play out in the scientific literature, through papers drawing on many other sources of data.

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Phony controversies tend to play out in the media, through press releases, stump speeches, and polemical writing reshared via social media.

 

Somewhat related: something I wrote a while back. Each step along the way of doing the science increases your confidence, but ultimately what you need in any scientific finding is confirmation of a result.

 

Once the weight of experimental result hits a certain critical mass, the expectations swing away from needing data to confirm a theory to needing exceptional data to disprove it.

 


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