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by raverbashing 1738 days ago
"obvious straw man" researchers should be worrying about the non-obvious strawmen. Because these extreme conditions help up check the boundaries of what is possible to verify or not.

> The problem is that there are plenty of research questions where RCTs show us that previous non-RCTs were wrong.

And that is fine. When you are able to use an RCT.