[Coral-List] push for more reliable research in ecology

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 21:13:54 UTC 2020


You're being too generous, sure looks to me like he believes it to his
core.  But, it makes a better reply to say that, well done.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 8:44 AM Bill Allison via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification. Your experience was mine throughout
> university. I wrote all my reports explaining why the experiment didn't
> work and here is what should have happened. ;-) Got A's too.
> I don't subscribe to most of science being wrong however, at least not yet,
> and I assume you are being tongue-in-cheek.
> Re. Acanthaster, I missed it in Rupert's message only because I was
> searching for Acanthaster and he used crown-of-thorns. Thanks for pointing
> it out, his experience may be relevant to my work so I'll contact him about
> it.
> Best wishes,
> Bill
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:20 AM David Blakeway <
> fathom5marineresearch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Hi Bill,
> >
> > Regarding Goodman & Greenland's critique of the Ioannidis article, their
> > article doesn't seem to be at the link they provide. I see that Ioannidis
> > replied though:
> > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1896210/
> >
> > Myself I like  good conspiracy theory so I will continue to believe that
> a
> > lot of, possibly most of, science is wrong. Backed up by repeated
> > experiences of my own science being wrong.
> >
> > Also, I should have specified that I was talking about Rupert's
> > Acanthaster experiment (in the thread above).
> >
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