In 2011, we’ve had such novel scientific discoveries as snails that can survive being eaten by birds, we’ve estimated the body temperature of dinosaurs
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Sharon Bertsch and Bryan Pesta’s investigation of different explanations for negative correlation between IQ and religion came out in 2009 and 2010, which isn’t even this year.
Have these results been replicated? Are you sure they’re correct? Merely citing cool-looking results isn’t evidence that the scientific process is working.
Remember, “the scientific process not working” doesn’t look like “cool results stop showing up”, but looks like “cool results keeping showing up except they no longer correspond to reality”. If you have no independent way of verifying the results in question, it’s hard to tell the above scenarios apart.
Bertsch and Pesta’s work has been replicated. The dinosaur temperature estimate is close to estimates made by other techniques—the main interesting thing here is that this is a direct estimate made using the fossil remains rather than working off of metabolic knowledge, body size, and the like. So the dinosaur temperature estimate is in some sense the replication by another technique of strongly suspected results. The snail result is very new; I’m not aware of anything that replicates it.
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Have these results been replicated? Are you sure they’re correct? Merely citing cool-looking results isn’t evidence that the scientific process is working.
Remember, “the scientific process not working” doesn’t look like “cool results stop showing up”, but looks like “cool results keeping showing up except they no longer correspond to reality”. If you have no independent way of verifying the results in question, it’s hard to tell the above scenarios apart.
Bertsch and Pesta’s work has been replicated. The dinosaur temperature estimate is close to estimates made by other techniques—the main interesting thing here is that this is a direct estimate made using the fossil remains rather than working off of metabolic knowledge, body size, and the like. So the dinosaur temperature estimate is in some sense the replication by another technique of strongly suspected results. The snail result is very new; I’m not aware of anything that replicates it.