Monday, November 03, 2014

Interesting.

For all you science-worshippers, check out Retraction Watch, where yesterday's unassailable proofs become fodder for a qui tam action.
Posted by Peter Sean at 7:18 AM
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its nice that the scientific process is so excellent at self-correction over time. That seems incongruous with a label like "science-worshippers."

Its unfortunate that so many other things people place faith in our society lack such a well-developed sense of their own failings and don't actively seek to correct themselves as regularly as "science" does.

1:38 PM
Peter Sean said...

Clearly, you didn't read the actual Retraction Watch site, which shows an alarming level of incompetence and criminality.

But I love the euphemism about "self-correction."

Ah, yes, the "invisible hand" of science doing its self-correction when someone who intentionally falsifies data is occasionally busted for fraud.

Somehow I don't think that people who are blase about "self-correction" in science would be so cavalier about "self-correction" in the banking industry when embezzlers and banksters are discovered as part of the "self-correction" process.

Also, one has to wonder how much bad science isn't being "self-corrected."

4:40 PM

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