[Esip-preserve] FYI: Article - "How science goes wrong"

[Parsons, Mark]

p.s. I loved the David allegory in Slate. Makes me want to go back to Florence.

-m.
On Oct 29, 2013, at 2:24 PM, "Mark A. Parsons" <parsom3 at rpi.edu<mailto:parsom3 at rpi.edu>>
 wrote:

I don't see the connection, Bruce. Maybe I'm missing your point.

The Economist highlights and bemoans a potential failing of scientists to adhere to defined scientific practice. Slate describes a discipline recovering from the hubris of thinking they had it all figured out until they discovered more complexity--wonderful concepts like epigenetics and the microbiome.

cheers,

-m.


On Oct 29, 2013, at 6:53 AM, Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com<mailto:brbarkstrom at gmail.com>>
 wrote:

Here's an article with an interesting perspective
on genetics as a research discipline that is
difficult to sort out - and may provide some
sense of the motivations that lead to the
confusions in the Economist article:

ww.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_genome/2013/10/human_genetics_successes_and_failures_ashg_stories_of_disease_genes.html<http://ww.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_genome/2013/10/human_genetics_successes_and_failures_ashg_stories_of_disease_genes.html>

Bruce B.
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