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by thatMurcia99 2189 days ago
Replication crisis could be called “eliminating false ideas.”

It’s only been the last 100ish years of the masses shifting from sky wizards to science.

There’s gonna be a learning curve and lots of “nope, not that.”

The paranoia over science and the replication issue is overblown.

What you should probably be skeptical of is not “science” as a concept but what other humans tell you it means. Which is just good life advice.

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There is no replication crisis. The correct approach is always to just see each study as one data point and in Popper's suggestion each time a study points in one direction this lends the relevant theory more weight. You might be able to repeat experiments but outside the hard sciences there simply is no one truth to rule them all, and even if you manage to replicate this is neither proof nor disproof that the theory/interpretation is fully right or that the results ate generalisable.