The good thing about Science is that you don't have to believe whether it's true or not, you can check for yourself.
@St_Rev But this “you” is <1% of population, and for any given scientific claim, it may be only a few dozen people.
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@Meaningness Whereas if it had been a study on canon law or qabala, there's no arguing with it. -
@St_Rev I agree with your basic point but I’m trying to refine the argument here…. - 3 more replies
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@Meaningness However I was reacting to and implicitly criticizinghttps://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/345551599382446081 … -
@St_Rev Oh. I don’t follow him. - 1 more reply
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@Meaningness V. true. Would say 'You can check anything but you can't check everything' but ran out of room.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness Also it depends how strict your idea of 'check' is. Smell tests can be very easy even for arcane results.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness e.g.: Someone linked a study purportedly on effects of dopamine restriction in some model. What was the restriction mechanism?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness Dietary tyrosine/phenylalanine restriction. Which limits dopamine, yes; it limits ALL the catecholamines.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness I could tell right there that the study was probably dodgy, without sweating the neuroscience.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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