LogFAQs > #888755321

COVxy posted...

Again, this doesn't change the fact that those who do science are humans that exist within a community that has different trends, in the same way that things become trending on Facebook.

How unbelievably incorrect. Science is science regardless of where it happens. This is because science is based on evidence, tests, reproducibility, and falsifiability. This is why someone can run the same objective science experiment in India that we can in America or Europe or any other part of the world.

Facebook trends are in no meaningful way comparable to science or anything to do with science because trends aren't affecting the evidence and tests. Otherwise they wouldn't pass peer review, be circulated, be repeatable, etc.

COVxy posted...

"Dynamics" has become trendy in my field over the past few years. If you attempt to publish a time-varying analysis, you are going to have a much easier time getting it accepted now than you would have a couple of years ago. Different brain regions often fade into and out of the lime-light, etc...

There are clear publication biases at work. A brain region can be associated with a particular faculty because people examining that faculty only look at that brain region.

What is your field? You don't seem very smart so I want to make sure you're even credentialed to speak to what science is. I mean you think Facebook trends are somehow in any way related to how science works and how it is practiced around the world.