Are you placing your faith in scientistry or scientody?
Because if you believe in the reliability of the latter, you need to understand
that the former, on average, no longer practices it:
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to
reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to
reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of the telling figures that
emerged from Nature's survey of 1,576 researchers who took a brief
online questionnaire on reproducibility in research. The data reveal
sometimes-contradictory attitudes towards reproducibility. Although 52% of
those surveyed agree that there is a significant 'crisis' of reproducibility,
less than 31% think that failure to reproduce published results means that the
result is probably wrong, and most say that they still trust the published literature.
This is absolutely incredible. Even
Hollywood accounting is not this slipshod! In how many other fields does the
failure of the numbers to add up correctly not mean that the result is
wrong?
What this means is that nearly 7 in 10 so-called scientists are not utilizing the scientific method at all. What now passes for "science" is now little more than a modern spin on the logical fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam, the appeal to credentialed authority.
What this means is that nearly 7 in 10 so-called scientists are not utilizing the scientific method at all. What now passes for "science" is now little more than a modern spin on the logical fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam, the appeal to credentialed authority.
Referenced
article in full text: https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970