Bias Against Novelty in Science

Re:Bias Against Novelty in Science by powera on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @07:23PM (#11866506)

Good! There should be a bias against new things until the new things are proven to be correct.

Optimizing science based on "what do people who want to get tenure want" seems like a great way to be bad at science.

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Re:Bias Against Novelty in Science by MollyR on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:14PM (#11872011)

I agree, I have some experience from doing medical research, and this seems like a given to me. My friends who work in the softer sciences like psychology have different opinions though, since they often work in degree's of correctness.

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Re:Bias Against Novelty in Science by xufi on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:31PM (#11866789)

That's a good point. Do you feel this is becoming more of the norm in certain realms of scientific research? what is your view?

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