Comments by "Wobbles And Bean" (@WobblesandBean) on "This Cornell Scientist Destroyed His Career in One Blog Post" video.

  1. That "pesky outlier" is a HUGE discrepancy in data. It's a little frustrating to see laypeople not getting it and saying such a small range is no big deal, but I counter by saying if you had diabetes and your doctor had a 5% chance of screwing up your dose so badly you went into a diabetic coma and died, is that still no big deal?
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  2. Sigh. This. All of this.
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  3. To put this in perspective for everyone who doesn't do science, this guy fudged his data from <.06 to <.02. Doesn't sound like a lot, does it? But that is a HUGE discrepancy in data. Put it this way: if you had diabetes and your doctor had a 4-5% chance of screwing up your insulin dose so badly you went into a diabetic coma and died, would you go to that doctor? 0.05 is a 1/20 chance. For every 20 patients, one is guaranteed to become past tense. I sure wouldn't risk it.
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  4. The root problem is with institutions incentivizing constant success. That's not realistic. They will only give grants and coveted tenured positions to people who are consistently churning out desirable results. But that's not realistic, the world doesn't work that way. It's like business investors demanding that profit margins must ALWAYS be increasing, every fiscal year, forever. As if inflation wasn't a thing and there were unlimited resources, manpower, and disposable income to throw around. It's delusional thinking.
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  5. I think the recent surge in anti-science rhetoric has forced the scientific and academic community to FINALLY crack down on bad faith actors like Brian. How can we convince society that science is trustworthy if the establishment keeps on letting this kind of nonsense slide?
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  6. To put this in perspective for everyone who doesn't do science, this guy fudged his data from <.06 to <.02. Doesn't sound like a lot, does it? But that is a HUGE discrepancy in data. Put it this way: if you had diabetes and your doctor had a 4-5% chance of screwing up your insulin dose so badly you went into a diabetic coma and died, would you go to that doctor? 0.05 is a 1/20 chance. For every 20 patients, one is guaranteed to become past tense. I sure wouldn't risk it.
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