Thats called manufacturing results and its a massive nono. I work in a research pathology lab and I've refused to do sketchy analysis for clients asking me fudge stuff to fit a narrative. I can't put into words how irresponsible this is, anyone else would be fired on the spot.
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Mosquito bites cause autism. My evidence, well I've never met an autistic person who was not around mosquitoes at least once in their life
I really wonder whether this administration is too simple-minded to realize how absurd they are, or whether they don't care because they know that no matter what they say or do, their behavior will have no consequences whatsoever.
I feel like it's more a reflection of their base. Not all these politicians are stupid. Many have CVs showing very high functioning, sometimes even in academics. I think this is more about how stupid they think their base is.
Granted a lot of it is them acting outside of their expertise. Ben Carson was a good example. Definitely not a stupid guy but looney tunes crazy as a politician because he was acting outside his field.
Their are some nepo-trust-fund idiots though. Maybe it's more like a stew of idiotic behaviors from various etiologies.
"To make the proof"...? You're supposed to be finding proof, not making it. Ideally before making a big announcement.
This is how a lot of conspiracy theorists and dare I say, people on the right see science. They see it as a way to prove their own ideas, not how to find out what's true.
Phrenology wasn't made to find out something, but to justify the social pecking order. The Nazis banned science they didn't like (what they called Jewish science) and promoted crackpot ideas and hypothesises they did like (what they called German science).
The trump admin is cutting science for things they don't like (Trans issues, climate change) and promoting trying to prove what they already believe.
As yes, the scientific method: announce the truth to the world and then go looking for it. An important step (which most amateurs miss) is to ignore everything that doesn't fit your conclusion. The man is truly a professional.
Wouldn't be surprised to see RFK & Dr. Oz branded "safe" aspirin alternatives in the next few months.
Can you call it a study if it's completely ignoring scientific method?
Observation: autism exists. Tylenol also exists
Hypothesis: autism is caused by Tylenol.
Experiment: yes- all the experiments.
?????
Profit.
Seems like theyre following the middle school scientific method to me.
Fucking Brawndo irrigation coming next.
I can't imagine what it must be like to be a normal career scientist in the DOH right now. Fucking nightmare.
He has half of the procedure down. First you assume a medicine is dangerous, but then you work to find out if it's safe, rather than finding proof it's not. But you also don't normally try to find proof that a medicine already deemed safe, is not.
He didn't say find. He said make. Make proof. As in make it up.
Half is way too generous here. Think of a hypothesis, then create a null hypothesis, collect data, analyze data, does that data fit your hypothesis or your null hypothesis? Then examine for any potential bias. He barely has a hypothesis right now.
Oh shit my spine has autism I’ve been 2 of those bad boys very 6-8 hrs.
I mean, to be a lot more fair than you should be: Yeah he is a fucking idiot.
But sure, you could have done a metastudy to analyse multiple studies and notice a possible trend or pattern to alert you to possible dangers. That's just a trend, and not verified, but at least something to base a hypothesis off of, which you would then test.
But if you've given yourself a deadline to make an announcement of what you've totally definitely learned, you likely go with the only thing that could possibly even maybe almost be true, pretend its totally real, because of course you've been doing your job and not sitting on your ass trying to point to being woke or gay or something more advantageous than smearing an american company but oops turns out doing that job takes someone who knows what the fuck they're doing and turns out literally everything is extremely nuanced because there are shitloads of factors that lead to the development of the brain.
So you go on live tv, eat shit blaming what you've announced you'll totally find the cause for on anything you could even pretend to think might be plausible....
then also blame it on genital mutilation?
Then maybe try and do a study on the hypothesis you had to run with.
Except you can't particularly do an experiment to verify that ethically. But its fine, you don't have ethics... except you're running the NIH which DOES have ethical standards. So... damnit.... now you have to find some way to do an "ethical" "study" that will test the hypothesis you came up with, except you're still an idiot so you still can't even begin to figure out how to do that.
Wow, have you heard about donald trump, the First Taliban-American president ever in history? What a record!
Start with the conclusion, make up and say whatever BS is needed to support that conclusion, stick fingers in ears and say “lalalalala! You’re attacking me!” When someone disagrees.
Just like Trump's Justice Department. ("Charge first! Find probable cause later!")
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