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Cory,

 

Sorry, I should have said, "pre-determined" results - i.e. confirming. I don't think anyone would even suggest there is no bias in "scientific research". Don't you think "pal" review is commonplace. Especially when "theory" is being postulated and reviewed.

 

Phone

I'm not sure where to begin. Can scientists suffer from confirmation bias

? Sure they can they are human beings just like the rest of us, but this is just the type of thing that the Scientific Method is designed to guard against,

 

No I don't think that "pal" review is commonplace, except amongst the "Creation Science" and "Intelligent Design" fraternity.

 

Are you really telling me that you don't know the difference between the colloquial usage of the word theory and a Scientific Theory? I mean really? I must admit I expected better of you Phone.

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Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
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Cory,

 

Sorry, I should have said, "pre-determined" results - i.e. confirming. I don't think anyone would even suggest there is no bias in "scientific research". Don't you think "pal" review is commonplace. Especially when "theory" is being postulated and reviewed.

 

Phone

 

Yes and heres a good example of pal review and confirmation bias

 

“… Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!” – Phil Jones 8/7/2004

concentrate for the moment: feel. don't think.

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"It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."

 

some dead bloke that invented delicious crispy rolls

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

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