Failure Of Science

When the Scientific Method doesn't seem to be working.

Coronavirus forecasting, policy, and communication

• https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1389747312285659139

Fraud, cheating: 2010-10-05-GrayCheatingInScience

http://xkcd.com/1574/

• Many commercial antibody-based immunoassays are unreliable
• Problems with the p-value as an indicator of significance
• Overfeeding of laboratory rodents compromises animal models

psychology: might as well go with Intervention Roulette

• WEIRD
• http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9216383/irreproducibility-research
• Roy Baumeister's Will Power work failed to be reproduced

criminology http://euc.sagepub.com/content/12/5/581.abstract?etoc

medicine

• nutrition: definition of a Good Diet
• irreproducible Cancer studies
• things complained about by Science Based Medicine
• 17 years for new medical practices to be adopted

Don't even get me started on "Social Science".

Problem for having Climate Change discussion? General trust of Experts?