Always ask for data
I was watching Nova 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' tonight and it reminded me I haven't done science post in a while. So here it is.
The biggest news of the day (at least in science) is the discovery of the fraud Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel has been committing for years. He was one of the most famous social psychologist in the field. He published a lot and collaborated a lot. His work were one of those media loves to report on like the effects of beauty product ads on consumer self-esteem or how littered streets promote discrimination. Now, it turns up he was making up the data.
This is why it is so important in science to independently repeat the results of any study. The difficulty to do that in any psychology related science is why so many people don't consider it science at all but conjecture. This may damage whatever credibility it has left. Worst part is that this will spread to tarnish all the scientist's reputations. Because gut feeling is so much better. Funny thing is that all this was based on Diederik Stapel gut feeling on how humans think. If one already knows why bother checking with RLTM.
So, now as an antidote something with verifiable, repeatable results.
We really have that little man in a control room in our brains. Or more precisely 12 of the - 6 for each hemisphere - that rule over all the other. They review, coordinate and oversee everything that is happening. They also heavily connected to each other and disruption of these connections or failure of even one of the centres
LHC is preparing for a winter break. It smashed it's last proton beams this year on Sunday and now is just going with light work of smashing ion beams. But only for the nest 4 weeks. Then it's off till March but we are promised it will come back better, stronger and more powerful. And now way Higgs boson can hide from it anymore.
And finally - look at this. This is like magic, only real (or at least like Star Wars):
The biggest news of the day (at least in science) is the discovery of the fraud Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel has been committing for years. He was one of the most famous social psychologist in the field. He published a lot and collaborated a lot. His work were one of those media loves to report on like the effects of beauty product ads on consumer self-esteem or how littered streets promote discrimination. Now, it turns up he was making up the data.
Many of Stapel’s students graduated without having ever run an experiment, the report says. Stapel told them that their time was better spent analyzing data and writing. The commission writes that Stapel was “lord of the data” in his collaborations. It says colleagues or students who asked to see raw data were given excuses or even threatened and insultedThis exactly opposite of how it should work. His practices were exposed when three junior researchers reported their suspicions of scientific misconduct in his work. He was suspended on all his articles are under review. It is already know that 30 of them contain falsified data. It might be more.
This is why it is so important in science to independently repeat the results of any study. The difficulty to do that in any psychology related science is why so many people don't consider it science at all but conjecture. This may damage whatever credibility it has left. Worst part is that this will spread to tarnish all the scientist's reputations. Because gut feeling is so much better. Funny thing is that all this was based on Diederik Stapel gut feeling on how humans think. If one already knows why bother checking with RLTM.
So, now as an antidote something with verifiable, repeatable results.
We really have that little man in a control room in our brains. Or more precisely 12 of the - 6 for each hemisphere - that rule over all the other. They review, coordinate and oversee everything that is happening. They also heavily connected to each other and disruption of these connections or failure of even one of the centres
LHC is preparing for a winter break. It smashed it's last proton beams this year on Sunday and now is just going with light work of smashing ion beams. But only for the nest 4 weeks. Then it's off till March but we are promised it will come back better, stronger and more powerful. And now way Higgs boson can hide from it anymore.
And finally - look at this. This is like magic, only real (or at least like Star Wars):