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		Rainymood on June 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Individuals with social phobia have too much serot... >But every time the accepted explanation does a 180 science dies a little bit So let's just keep the earth flat then, shall we ;) This is the beauty of science. If a report on memory that claims X and then another scientist is unable to replicate their results X, what can we say about the validity of X?

primroot on June 19, 2015 [–]

It would be the beauty of science if people referred to the weight of the evidence in more accurate language, and if policy makers didn't every now and then find excuses in weakly established conclusions.

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