RE: Peer reviewed study published in Science Journal turns out to be fraud.
May 23, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(May 23, 2015 at 12:36 pm)YGninja Wrote: It is pure chance that a separate group tried to replicate the results.Not really, that's what researchers do. They seek to either validate or overturn the work that others have done, whether peer-reviewed or not. It's notable that it took less than half-a-year to go from a published report that was being hailed to a disgraced report that will be retracted. That's pretty fast, and it shows one of the strengths of the scientific method: bad science can be exposed. And since this is scientific research, the author of the original report can't claim "new light via divine revelation" to change his interpretation and salvage his bad work. That's a good thing.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
