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Last updated: Fri, Jun 30, 2017
This section discusses some ways that science can go wrong. Sometimes the discarding of old truths is a sign of success as new, improved understandings replace old understandings. However, there are plenty of opportunities for things to go wrong in scientific research. Scientists by-and-large seem to have the same intellectual foibles that the rest of us have. It is in a way remarkable that there aren't more errors in scientific endeavor than there are, if you consider that the goal of science is to simplify without losing accuracy.
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The Challenge of Provability (Last updated: Fri, Jun 30, 2017)
Sample Size and Confounders (Last updated: Sat, Aug 17, 2024)
Selection Bias (Last updated: Fri, Jun 30, 2017)
Research Agendas and Funding (Last updated: Sat, Aug 17, 2024)
Confirmation Bias (This page is incomplete.)
Correlation and Causation (Last updated: Sat, Aug 17, 2024)
Interpretation Errors (Last updated: Fri, Jun 30, 2017)
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The Research Agenda (This page is incomplete.)