cousin_it comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 16 February 2011 03:33:07AM *  20 points [-]

Hmm. So if someday I find that some scientists make conclusions that don't follow and these conclusions are used to make harmful policy decisions, I must not point out that certain scientific problems are unsolved or gather other scientists to write petitions, because that would make me match the RW pattern of "denialist". Also apparently I must not say that correlation isn't causation, because that's "minimizing the relevance of statistical data".