{"id":24388,"date":"2024-12-17T17:59:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=24388"},"modified":"2024-12-17T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:59:39","slug":"scientific-conclusions-need-not-be-accurate-justified-or-believed-by-their-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/12\/scientific-conclusions-need-not-be-accurate-justified-or-believed-by-their-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the subtitle of another blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatrymargins.com\/p\/scientific-method-and-scientific\">on the scientific method<\/a> (and scientific madness).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t agree with the statement &#8211; conclusion should be as accurate and as logical as possible. Conclusions should be believed by the authors as they \u00a0are fraudsters otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The original paper for the strange hypothesis is \u00a0by\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11229-021-03158-9\">Dang and Bright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dang and Bright argue that all this makes sense if we expect the norms governing the presentation of scientific conclusions to scientific peers to align with the reality that science works through division of cognitive labor and collective efforts at error correction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>which is basically not true &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/11\/brandolinis-law-again\/\">Brandolinis law<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 24.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the subtitle of another blog on the scientific method (and scientific madness). I don&#8217;t agree with the statement &#8211; conclusion should be as accurate and as logical as possible. Conclusions should be believed by the authors as they \u00a0are fraudsters otherwise. The original paper for the strange hypothesis is \u00a0by\u00a0 Dang and Bright. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/12\/scientific-conclusions-need-not-be-accurate-justified-or-believed-by-their-authors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24425,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388\/revisions\/24425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}