Cosmic inflation: Confidence lowered for Big Bang signal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27935479

by outrightfree • 12 years ago

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mantraxC• 12 years ago

Think of the power of confirmation bias next time you loudly proclaim there's scientific proof about something.

Usually it takes hundreds and thousands of experiments to really prove something conclusively, because science is affected by culture and fashions like any other field of endeavor.

Most scientists are singularly focused on trying to prove the theory of the day. And if you look hard enough for evidence, you'll find your evidence.

gliptic• 12 years ago

No scientist has claimed that BICEP2 has proven anything and there's no such thing as "scientific proof". Here we have the group itself admitting that the conclusion is no longer as strong as it was. What are you actually trying to say?

louwrentius• 12 years ago

Probably something like science is not that 'good' anyway so I can keep believing in my own bullshit whatever that may be.

mreiland3• 12 years ago

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted by blind dumbasses, nothing you said was unreasonable, they just took it to somehow be a criticism of science and went with it.

snowwrestler2• 12 years ago

I downvoted not because it's unreasonable, but because it is a generic comment that carries no content of any particular relevance to the story at hand. It could be posted under almost any science story and it would be just as relevant.

Cosmic inflation: Confidence lowered for Big Bang signal

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