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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (699106)9/2/2005 12:24:38 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof   of 769670
 
"Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis."

Of course!!!!!!

That is how science works! (Most of the scientific theories that I was taught as a child have since been overturned and replaced with superior theories that better match the available evidence....)

You publish a hypothesis, along with your supporting data... and then it is subjected to peer review... criticism... alternative hypothesis are put forward... they are debated, etc.

Ultimately (if the hypothesis proves to have PREDICTIVE VALIDITY, and the evidence is replicable by *other* testers) then it advances into the realm of 'accepted wisdom', and is called a "theory" --- that is, only until a SUPERIOR explanation of the evidence is put forward and proven out.

That is how science advances. NO KNOWLEDGE is absolute, NOTHING is not subject to the potential to be over-turned and replaced with a theory that explains the evidence BETTER.

So, those Creationists had better GET CRACKING in the laboratory and come up with some hard, replicatable evidence.

Until and unless they do, they haven't even met the standards for a *theory* yet... all they have is an untestable hypothesis.

(PS, if you think that *politicos* are better at making scientific and medical decisions then scientists and physicians... I'd only ask: WHERE is their equivalent of a peer review process? HOW are their backroom decisions supposed to be subjected to impartial testing????)
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