You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes
In a world were 47 of 53 landmark cancer research papers were found to not be replicable... where one scientist admitted (after the meta-researchers tried 50 times to replicate the result and failed) that they had run the experiment 6 times and got the result once and reported that because it made a better "story"... where the act of suppressing refutations of other's bogus research is "culturally commonplace"...<p>Something is rotten in the core of science. These days I give the research the same weight I give the anecdote... and that is no weight at all.<p>Science has been supplanted by money and politics... At least anecdotes admit they're anecdotes!<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cancer-science-many-discoveries-dont-hold-174216262.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/cancer-science-many-discoveries-dont-h...</a>