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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by boomboomsubban on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:00AM (#26139273)
>How do you know if the papers you read are a representative sample? How do you know the papers that are published are a representative sample?

You don't. You use the sources you've seen to make the best analysis you can, fully prepared to drop it if with further evidence.

Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by ironmagma on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:37AM (#26143684)
That’s the very reason you can’t “trust the science” in general though. Science is a good tool for knowledge when there has been a repetition of studies, but when all you have is a few, you’re kind of screwed. You can’t claim to know even a basic thing without being an expert in the field these days as a result. A large part of this though is down to lack of discoverability of similar studies which I think can be helped.