Er, that's what I've been saying all along, with one additional point: until science as a profession cleans its house, nobody is going to take anything that scientists say on trust. They had that trust, they abused it, and now it's gone. A lot of hard work and a new openness to public scrutiny from outside the scientific community is going to be needed before anything of the kind can be restored.
If you want to see science survive the twilight of the industrial world, in other words, as a participant in science, you have your work cut out for you. Most of it isn't anything I can do as an outsider -- and a despised outsider, by the way. (You might recall for a moment the kind of rhetoric scientists like to direct toward occultists and practitioners of alternative health care, both of which I am.) It has to be done from within. I'd like to see science passed onto the future, but all I can do is hope that you and people like you will do something about scientific fraud...and not just go around insisting in forums like this one that it really isn't a problem.
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Re: Randomized clinical trial
Date: 2025-04-18 12:27 am (UTC)If you want to see science survive the twilight of the industrial world, in other words, as a participant in science, you have your work cut out for you. Most of it isn't anything I can do as an outsider -- and a despised outsider, by the way. (You might recall for a moment the kind of rhetoric scientists like to direct toward occultists and practitioners of alternative health care, both of which I am.) It has to be done from within. I'd like to see science passed onto the future, but all I can do is hope that you and people like you will do something about scientific fraud...and not just go around insisting in forums like this one that it really isn't a problem.