RE: Peer reviewed study published in Science Journal turns out to be fraud.
May 23, 2015 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm by YGninja.)
(May 23, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Chuck Wrote:(May 23, 2015 at 12:36 pm)YGninja Wrote: It is pure chance that a separate group tried to replicate the results. The results and the conclusion taken from those results should have been exposed during peer-review. Peer reviews are meant to anaylse the veracity of the source data.
On the contrary, virtually every result in science will be subjected to repeated efforts at duplication, not only shortly after the publication but down through the ages when the result could be of any relevance to any other scientific inquiry. Even now newton's results in duplication are still sought every day in huge array of experiments and inqueries, and any deviation, real or through experimental error, rigorously investigated. Were you brain dead during your education years or were you "home schooled" such that you could be unaware of this?
when did any of you co-religionists attempt to duplicate virgin birth and resurrection?
"Down through the ages", is pretty much irrelevant as it is the implications of the beliefs held to be true by society today which decide what is studied in the future.
"Shortly after the publication", is also wrong for the vast majority, as many studies are highly exclusive, they cannot be recreated by independent groups. Take the LHC, how can someone endeavor to recreate their results? Only the people already at the LHC can, and they're the same people who did the original study, or if not, they are still paid by the same interests. Look how long it took to expose the Piltdown man fraud. Evolution was put into schools on the basis of that 'evidence', it was widely accepted on the basis of that 'evidence', and when it was later, silently, shown to be a fraud, no-one heard about it, and beliefs had already been established. The damage had been done.
The virgin birth and resurrection are not naturalistic thesis. Were you brain dead during your education years or were you "home schooled" such that you could be unaware of this?