This is the opening sentence in an article titled “Scientific Regress” by William Wilson.1 The article is about science and the repeatability of scientific results in the published literature. (Indented paragraphs are quoted from this article, unless otherwise referenced.) Scientific claims rest on the idea that experiments repeated under nearly identical conditions ought to yield approximately the same […]
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How do we know what is true and what is not? These days we are expected to believe what we hear on television, read in the newspaper and read on the web. Science is portrayed as being able to answer (eventually) all questions and provide some sort of ultimate truth. But how much can you […]