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Science is often flawed. It's time we embraced that.
In 2011, when Stapel was suspended over research fraud allegations, he was a rising star in social psychology at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He had conducted attention-grabbing experiments on social behavior, looking at, for example, whether litter in an environment encouraged racial stereotyping and discrimination. Yet that paper — and at least 55 others, as well as 10 dissertations written by students he supervised — were built on falsified data.
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Refreshing. One has got to realize that human error follows the footsteps of the scientific process. From bias, corruption, stupidity, carelessness, laziness, everything that plagues us, can and will plague the scientific method. Theres a lot to this to talk about, and personally I can go on for a fair bit about peer-review alone let alone all the other steps in this process. By no means does this discredit the credibility of the scientific community/process, but should remind us that we should still look out for errors.
You hit that right on the money.
The Embracement of flawed Science movement....this could catch on
Those of us who have lived long enough to see most every scientific assertion flawed do not consider ourselves "deniers" rather "skeptics".