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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein |
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In general, the industry claims that even though they had to admit that they measured toxic substances in the aircraft breathing air, all values are well below legal thresholds. Even those that do not have legally acceptable threshold limits!
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Letter suggesting to change breed of rats to improve results (pesticides.gov.uk):
A couple of the approaches in such situations if you want to avoid any changes to remedy an inherently awkward situation, are these two options:
Method 1: The permissible limit values are increased. Prof. Helmut VALENTIN, for example, successfully proposed this in the field of mercury. And that is how it was handled. (cf. The Erlangen VALENTIN School). Method 2: You simply cannot find problematic values. All you have to do is use the appropriate method. For example, measure something that is not important at all. MORE >> LINK DokZentrum AnsTageslicht 
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Science is broken. We know why, and we know how to fix it. What we lack is the will to change things. In 2005, several analyses suggested that most published results in medicine are false. A 2008 review showed that perhaps 80% of academic journal articles mistake "statistical significance" for "significance" in the colloquial meaning of the word, an elementary error every introductory statistics textbook warns against. This year, a detailed investigation showed that half of published neuroscience papers contain one particular simple statistical mistake. Read on >> ©LessWrong | ||
