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I worked first hand in a research group. the 'experts' are extremely political, and anything that doesn't fit their political agenda is ignored, and if the study/experiment doesn't fit their political agenda they keep trying or fudging the data until it does. I'll give you an example,

I noticed a map of obesity overlaps very well with a map of diabetes. high alcohol consumption mapped very well with the areas the prior map didnt correlate. in other words, in areas where obesity was not correlated with diabetes, there was high alcohol consumption. paper worthy or worth looking into? no. I lied to a different section of the group and said these were areas of increased correlation, and it wasn't alcohol but soda consumption. They immediately wanted to seek grants to write papers.

You can see how this leads to junk science. if you ignore things that dont fit your political agenda and only research things that fit your agenda, that's junk science. it gets worse because when the data doesnt suggest the political agenda pushed, they try to 'account' for other factors or re-run the study in a different way until it says what they wanted it to say. worse case, it doesnt get published.

The experts are not to be trusted.




Is that related to the “reproduction crisis” science is going through right now?


yes because results are jelly beaned. If you keep changing what to measure for success criteria until you get what you want, you are more likely reject the null hypothesis even though you should not have OR if you dont publish results that doesnt fit your political bias, the 1/20 ones that do get published and also incorrectly rejected the null hypothesis




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