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[Guest guest]

At the end of my post on research methodology and experimental design,

I spoke rather sharply and impatiently about some of the bogus crap

that goes on in the name of science and experimentation-- I want to

make it clear that I was in no way intending insult to this audience.

I used to have great hopes and great belief in the scientific method,

and essentially I still do-- I have just been painfully disillusioned

by how frequently it is corrupted and distorted in practice. Please

take my vehemence as reflecting personal passion and past

disappointment, rather than a commentary on my expectations of what

others on this list might produce. We are all practitioners in a

field that has not always been investigated with unbiased rigor by

Western science. I am very sorry that this is the case, and hope that

together we may remedy it, but I have over time become more than a bit

cynical about scientific integrity.

 

Perhaps in this enclave we can do better.

 

with sincerity

 

Thea Elijah