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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by native_samples on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:43PM (#28879815)
Flip it around: why aren't you the one engaging in confirmation bias?

Look at the comment down-thread. Only 44% of a set of highly cited clinical trials had been successfully replicated and 32% appeared to be wrong when replications were done. That's for clinical trials, let alone stuff like social psych! Given a random clinical trial it is in fact pretty reasonable to assume it's wrong, and might even be rational, given that you'd hope highly cited and impactful studies are more likely to be correct than not.

But don't take my word for it. Take it from a former editor of the BMJ:

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...

"Science" really is just that terrible, unfortunately.

Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by dangerlibrary on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:17PM (#28880247)
44% replicability is a lot higher than the average right wing internet meme/argument about gun violence and gun safety.