Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us

Anyone see the massive irony in this being posted on the internet, run by computers, powered by electricity, declaring that science is "failing us?"

First example in the story: a drug that doctors thought was going to work... didn't... The scientists mixed up what was causing what.

They had a hypothesis and tested it. We can say that the hypothesis was wrong because of what? That's right, because of science.

To imply that science is failing, or we need to reconceptualize "causality," simply because it's difficult... that's idiotic.

Finally, this article falls into a common mistake with science writing: confusing clinical trials with ALL SCIENCE RESEARCH. I do basic biological research. Don't lump me in with clinical researchers, critique their methods, and then say that all science research is messed up.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/KghHCO1zOXA/trials-and-errors-why-science-is-failing-us

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