Re:EmDrive study officially published
by lomnakkus on Saturday November 19, 2016 @03:23PM
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What do you mean by "closed discussion", specifically?
We've been hearing about this for ~1 year at this point, so I'm not sure what you mean.
> I guess, the more info is available to the public, the better.
This is up for debate -- esp. given the whole "fake news" thing and the observation that people basically love echo chambers (as observed in the field of Behavioural Economics).
If, by "info" you mean "actually provable[1] info", then I probably agree.
[1] To some reasonable standard of "proof". Certainly we don't need "mathematical" proof, but we need something better than "a study says". (See: reproducibility crisis[2], the fact that a "study" doesn't require any particular standard of evidence, etc.)
[2] Meta: I wonder if the BE field is itself suffering from a reproducibility crisis? Anyone know?
We've been hearing about this for ~1 year at this point, so I'm not sure what you mean.
> I guess, the more info is available to the public, the better.
This is up for debate -- esp. given the whole "fake news" thing and the observation that people basically love echo chambers (as observed in the field of Behavioural Economics).
If, by "info" you mean "actually provable[1] info", then I probably agree.
[1] To some reasonable standard of "proof". Certainly we don't need "mathematical" proof, but we need something better than "a study says". (See: reproducibility crisis[2], the fact that a "study" doesn't require any particular standard of evidence, etc.)
[2] Meta: I wonder if the BE field is itself suffering from a reproducibility crisis? Anyone know?