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Title: How we fool ourselves. Part II: Scientific consensus building
Post by: rangerrebew on April 11, 2021, 01:00:16 pm

How we fool ourselves. Part II: Scientific consensus building
Posted on April 10, 2021 by curryja 

by Judith Curry

“Like a magnetic field that pulls iron filings into alignment, a powerful cultural belief is aligning multiple sources of scientific bias in the same direction. – policy scientist Daniel Sarewitz

Statistician Regina Nuzzo summarizes the problem:

“This is the big problem in science that no one is talking about: even an honest person is a master of self-deception. In today’s environment, our talent for jumping to conclusions makes it all too easy to find false patterns in randomness, to ignore alternative explanations for a result or to accept ‘reasonable’ outcomes without question — that is, to ceaselessly lead ourselves astray without realizing it.”

https://judithcurry.com/2021/04/10/how-we-fool-ourselves-part-ii-scientific-consensus-building/