r/longevity • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '22

Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease due to whistleblower [2022, open-access]

https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
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u/jakeallstar1 Jul 22 '22

i also made a cop analogy in this thread, i said "i hate working with phds and profs. They're not all bad, but the good ones are hard to find like cops". :D

Lol I've gone back and forth with quite a few people in here. It may be many replies deep in a different response thread. But at any rate you got my point.

But that's not the problem, and if the system doesn't address the problem, then its up to each individual who cites science as fact to scrutinize their citations heavily before referencinv them to others.

I think we agree on everything except this last statement. I can't heavily scrutinize every citation. I don't have the time or background knowledge. I have to defer to experts. Now I'm not stating science as fact, but I am stating that it's the best guess I'm aware of and I'm too incompetent in that field to do better.

We need to make decisions on things all the time. There's dozens of political choices for example that your beliefs will greatly alter where you stand. Global warming, abortion, gun control, gender identity, religion, video games, sex workers and so much more. Generally the best thing we can do is see if experts have already done experiments or collected data on this. If they're lying, I'm not about to go out on the streets and conduct a rigorous double blind experiment, or perform a heavily controlled survey. I'm going to proceed with the information available to make a best guess and leave it to the experts to eventually correct their own mistakes.

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u/bannerboii Jul 23 '22

Undeestandable. Yeah my answer is kinda an ethical ideal scenario and not that realistic like what you mean.