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Luke_A_Somers comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 26 January 2012 04:08:34PM *  17 points [-]

They produce results that work, even for people that don't want to believe them. At least, in most parts of the hard sciences - I don't know about the depths of string theory or cosmology.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 February 2012 07:37:32PM 1 point [-]

Can't find the link offhand, but there's some interesting metaanalysis of medical-scientific journals and a few other fields that strongly suggests even the hard sciences in general aren't immune to this.