Thread by @yaneerbaryam

Now for the kicker on Evidence Based Science: New variant is here, all of the existing evidence is worthless, obsolete.

What you gonna do? Start all over again? Or make incorrect assumption of independence from the change (not evidence based!).

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Key the pseudo scientific speculation.

Here is a paper explaining this

Limits to phenomenology.

necsi.edu/the-limits-of-…

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What is the alternative? Complexity science of multiscale representations.

Use empirical observations as tests of representations.

This is the scientific method that includes the relationship between empirical and theoretical frameworks.

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necsi.edu/why-complexity…

But then evidence based science was mostly an excuse for pseudo scientific denialism anyway.

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Fixing science using a new science of science

"How do we understand and learn about the world? By gathering information. If we perform enough experiments and write down what happens, eventually we should be able to understand how everything works.

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necsi.edu/fixing-science…

"This approach seems logical, and is the basis of most science, particularly biology, psychology, and social sciences. It underlies much of the progress of scientific knowledge over 100 years.

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"Surprisingly this empirical approach turns out to be inherently limited in what it can do.

"The issue is that a data-driven approach doesn't include a way to generalize from observations that are made to observations that might be made in slightly different conditions.

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