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by Retric 3409 days ago
Which is it's own problem. A Bayesian is often happy to look at any data that agrees with their own interpretation which is why it's not useful for papers.

The idea that A cause cancer is ridiculous. Collect data, well the A group has 10x as much cancer, but that's ridiculous so I conclude there is no relationship between A and cancer.

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Collect data, well the A group has 10x as much cancer, now it is about 10 times less ridiculous.

This should be about right.