Re:Cancer reproducibility effort faces backlash
by peterfirefly on Sunday June 28, 2015 @02:27PM
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I think it is entirely fair to presume biologists incompetent and sloppy until they have proven otherwise.
(My impression from admittedly limited contact with biology students and from browsing through the occasional paper is that most of them barely approach mediocrity from below.)
I also agree on the innocent until proven guilty part, but by now I've seen and talked to hundreds of people with the best intentions, who do not realise how important careful examination of the data is, so I'm growing a bit disillusioned.