The word "replicated" seems to have disappeared from this paraphrasing, and that flips the paraphrased statement from true to false.
On the other hand the paraphrase also changed 'far more' to 'more' so technically it scrapes through. Even though the peer review process is only slightly better than chance it does add some value.
A single peer-reviewed paper is still not more evidence than one's own experiences. If a paper were published tomorrow, no matter how well peer-reviewed, saying, say, "chocolate is immediately lethal to humans" I would have ample reason to dismiss that, as I have seen many examples of people eating chocolate and not immediately dying. Were that paper replicated many times over, however, I'd have to start wondering about what was causing the discrepancy. But with one paper? Defy the data.
Today's post, Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary was originally published on 20 January 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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