"Similar proposals have been tried in the past, but every time the resistance has been beaten back and significance testing has remained the standard. Maybe this time the fear of having a career’s worth of results exposed as irreproducible will provide scientists with the extra motivation they need."
Maybe. I'll believe it when I see it.
A nice statement on why, like establishing causality, prediction is difficult. Sample:
3. History is the study of surprising events. Prediction is using historical data to forecast what events will happen next.
Do you see the irony?
Historical data is a good guide to the future. But the most important events in historical data are the big outliers, the record-breaking events. They are what move the needle. We use those outliers to guide our views of things like worst-case scenarios. But those record-setting events, when they occurred, had no precedent. So the forecaster who assumes the worst (and best) events of the past will match the worst (and best) events of the future is not following history; they’re accidentally assuming the history of unprecedented events happening doesn’t apply to the future.
This could explain a lot,
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel thinks is have been verified pretty darn well.
Inflation has literally met every threshold that science demands, with clever new tests becoming possible with improved observations and instrumentation. Whenever the data has been capable of being collected, inflation's predictions have been verified. Although it's perhaps more palatable and fashionable to be a contrarian, inflation is the leading theory for the best reason of all: it works.
Answers to "If Roundup is so safe, why don’t you drink a glass?" and five other questions about GMOs.
"So here is a fact: It is now abundantly clear to anyone honestly looking, that the variable of biological sex influences all levels of mammalian brain function, down to the cellular/genetic substrate, which of course includes the human mammalian brain."
One of the investigators states, "Everybody assumed this, but nobody has demonstrated it."
Even though this is only speculation, it seems as though modern physics keeps getting weirder.
Perhaps the answer is they don’t have to — because entanglement doesn’t happen in spacetime. Entanglement creates spacetime.
It could well be just me, but I don't find this list to be impressive.
Nobody had thought to look there.