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Science moves on bodies of evidence - C C - Mar 20, 2017
https://forthesakeofscience.com/2017/03/10/science-moves-on-bodies-of-evidence/
EXCERPT: I’ve long made the point that science moves on bodies of evidence, not individual studies. If you don’t have repeatable data, then you don’t have much of anything. This is why the media is frequently so bad when it comes to reporting on recent studies; they report (or at least imply) individual study results as conclusions that are being made by the scientific community at-large. The truth is usually more like, one group of researchers found some interesting results....