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Quote by: big_lefty  Now I've heard everything. You're actually claiming that the more studies which establish a fact there are, the less the fact is established?
By your reasoning, the world is actually flat, because many researchers have concluded, repeatedly, that it is round.
Why would they have bothered to repeat the research otherwise, according to your theory? |
Yes, that would be a good interpretation of what I said.
My remark was directed at epidemiology mainly and not sound sciene.
I would reason that if the first guy, with his three boats, proved his theory was correct, more "researchers" were not needed to re-prove what was already known, the world is not flat.
No one had to make 600 studies or experiments to prove that the world is not flat. They did not have to show the Queen their physics. They made one trip and came back with some stuff form the new world.
Having overcome their fear (of falling off the edge) many others followed and in short order they had the global map. But not to prove what the first guy had already demonstrated.
That was a silly anology in my opinion, try another one.
If my wife were to bake a cake because a cook book said it would taste good, all I would need is one bite to proove that the cookbook was correct, not 600 cakes.
Geeez.