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by MadSax 3278 days ago
I don't like that Ars is cherry picking edge cases to oppose the action when everyone knows that there are huge problems with reproducing scientific data of any sort these days.
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It's not 'these days' it's the intrinsic nature of false hypotheses outnumbering true hypotheses by an enormous ratio. Even if everything were working perfectly you'd expect false results to outnumber true results. It's like the common example of disease screening, where even if you only get a false positive 1% of the time, but there are only 1% of true positives in your sample population, you're going get many more inaccurate results than accurate results. This video walks through an example calculation and what kinds of steps are being taken to improve on things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q&t=218s

Without further qualifications, this statement is flat out wrong.