A while ago I posted an article on my Facebook page from the New Yorker : the Truth Wears Off: Is There Something Wrong with the Scientific Method?” – http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all
It was an very interesting article on the growing difficulty of reproducing scientific results. I had no idea…
NOW, scientists from the Nature Conservancy respond to that issue:
Is Something Wrong with the Scientific Method? Part 1 | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of
blog.nature.org
http://blog.nature.org/2011/01/is-something-wrong-with-the-scientific-method-part-2/
Is Something Wrong with the Scientific Method? Part 2 | Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of blog.nature.org by Robert Lalasz.
Conservancy scientists Rob McDonald, Doria Gordon and Joe Fargione respond to Jonah Lehrer’s New Yorker article.
And Jonah Lehrer – the one who started this discussion – adds some further thoughts from his blog:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/the-mysterious-decline-effect/
So the saga of “do we trust scientific study results or not” continues…..
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