If you can act like you know what you’re talking about, you can get away with gibberish for quite a while – especially if you have selfish biased gibberish promoters and networks to back you up.
There’s no reproducibility crises. It is the long established scientific method for screening out what is likely correct from what is likely a chance occurrence. It’s only a crisis on an individual basis when your life’s work leads to your glorious moment of triumph and then you find you can’t do it again.
Reproducibility? I learned about that when I was a kid. When a mommy & daddy love each other VERY much… What? Not that kind of reproducibility? Oh – (in the voice of Emily Litella) “never mind.”
(GIGO) is the concept that flawed, or nonsense (garbage) input data produces nonsense output. However it can all be explained away by chaos theory ( this is important if your grant is on the line). Your research will be peer reviewed, accepted and become scientific dogma. Even if it is all just gibberish. This is the new scientific method.
There is a growing wave of support for science journals that require ALL necessary data for reproduction of the experiments be made public before publication of related articles.
Decades ago, there was a TV episode about science research. In discussing reproducibility, they said a big problem is few researchers were interested in attempting to reproduce results of others. It seems to be less interesting work. If the results were replicated, it wouldn’t be newsworthy. And those who decided which research projects should be funded tended to agree.
Izzy Moreno over 1 year ago
Well, they CAN, but then someone will notice it was wrong the first time.
“It’s too complicated, we can’t replicate the moon landing. We, uh, lost the formula. Yes.”
Doug K over 1 year ago
If you can act like you know what you’re talking about, you can get away with gibberish for quite a while – especially if you have selfish biased gibberish promoters and networks to back you up.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 1 year ago
Yes, unfotunately, the studies on reproducibility are replicated.
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
Only in a mirror.
LawrenceS over 1 year ago
Cold fusion anyone?
phritzg Premium Member over 1 year ago
Brewster seems to be experiencing room temperature con-fusion.
P51Strega over 1 year ago
There’s no reproducibility crises. It is the long established scientific method for screening out what is likely correct from what is likely a chance occurrence. It’s only a crisis on an individual basis when your life’s work leads to your glorious moment of triumph and then you find you can’t do it again.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago
Good Will Hunting could figure it out
Csaw Backnforth over 1 year ago
Reproducibility? I learned about that when I was a kid. When a mommy & daddy love each other VERY much… What? Not that kind of reproducibility? Oh – (in the voice of Emily Litella) “never mind.”
blakerl over 1 year ago
(GIGO) is the concept that flawed, or nonsense (garbage) input data produces nonsense output. However it can all be explained away by chaos theory ( this is important if your grant is on the line). Your research will be peer reviewed, accepted and become scientific dogma. Even if it is all just gibberish. This is the new scientific method.
Calvins Brother over 1 year ago
Brewster stumped Dr. Mel?
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
There is a growing wave of support for science journals that require ALL necessary data for reproduction of the experiments be made public before publication of related articles.
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
Speaking of reproducibility, let’s hope that Brewster can’t replicate it either.
Bilan over 1 year ago
Too many researchers are more concerned about being published than being confident.
Jogger2 over 1 year ago
Decades ago, there was a TV episode about science research. In discussing reproducibility, they said a big problem is few researchers were interested in attempting to reproduce results of others. It seems to be less interesting work. If the results were replicated, it wouldn’t be newsworthy. And those who decided which research projects should be funded tended to agree.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 1 year ago
Brewster cut to the heart of the matter.
gcarlson over 1 year ago
Could publish it in the Journal of Irreproducible Results (yes, that’s a real magazine – humor for scientists).