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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by chordalkeyboard on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:21AM (#25698866)
> we understand on some level the work that goes into good science

Meanwhile people who are informed on the state of actual science say "50% of published research is false."

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by all_factz on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:16AM (#25701565)
I mean, as the paper says:

> Second, most research questions are addressed by many teams, and it is misleading to emphasize the statistically significant findings of any single team. What matters is the totality of the evidence.

I think few people would refute this.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by chordalkeyboard on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:14PM (#25723452)
> What matters is the totality of the evidence.

If half of the evidence contradicts the other half would it be fair to conclude that we don’t know much about the things we have researched?

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