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Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Popper by executive order: “structured for falsifiability of hypotheses”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/

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Daniel Hoffmann 🥬
@Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
@UlrikeHahn hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and injection of bleach as COVID cures are best practice examples of the new "gold standard"
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Georg Krammer
@GeorgKrammer@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@UlrikeHahn
We as researchers are just super naive. If you ask me, those things go back to Big #Tabacco vs #Science
Ironically, they demanded what we in #OpenScience demand nowadays, but with a very different aim... :(

I touch upon that in a recent #preprint on open data: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hk786_v1

"Long before today’s #Open #Science movements, the Executive Committee of the Sound Science Coalition (1994; cited in Ong & Glantz, 2001) published guidelines that align with what Open Science practices advocate today. For example:
(1) The study design should inform about all hypotheses,
(2) after the study was conducted, the data should be analyzed as described in the study design, and
(3) if the data does not support the hypotheses, no further analyses are necessary.
Shockingly, in #1994 these recommendations were motivated by the fact that parts of the #tobacco industry aimed to #discredit research and researchers on a large scale, with the goal that it could not be legally established that smoking increases the risk of lung #cancer (Drope, 2001; Muggli et al., 2001; Ong & Glantz, 2001). Along this line, one may accuse researchers as having been naive to the vested interests aligning with scientific rigour by non-researchers."

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Oliver D. Reithmaier
@odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
@UlrikeHahn hm. My field doesn't usually work with hypotheses. Maybe we aren't sciencing.
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Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
@odr_k4tana clearly not!
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Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
@odr_k4tana but luckily for us all a government with a deep love of science is here to sort it all out..
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