Posted on 07/08/2016 7:45:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
There could be a very serious problem with the past 15 years of research into human brain activity, with a new study suggesting that a bug in fMRI software could invalidate the results of some 40,000 papers.
That's massive, because functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the best tools we have to measure brain activity, and if it’s flawed, it means all those conclusions about what our brains look like
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
A major screw up for sure
A disaster.
And this is why I don’t treat the results of scientific research as immutable eternal truths.
wow...
why don’t these people CALL ME before they do this stuff????
I could have shown them how to test their software more completely before they released it
GIGO.
Whoopsie.
Excellent! Because now it will mess up the ability of
governments to know exactly how the brain operates
and what we are thinking about.
And they trust computer software to model Climate Change?
The results can only be invalidated if the bug was intentional; otherwise, the results should be considered valid. We don't want to make results invalid unless the bug was intentional.
“And they trust computer software to model Climate Change?”
No they do NOT rely on a computer model for climate change
( NOW CALLED—Climate disruption)
IT HAS BEEN PROVEN- THEY knowingly FAKE the DATA
Check out — Faked Australian climate data-
LOL— oh... and now they are leaning back to the world going into another Ice age— can’t make this stuff up fast enough-
or quantifiably manageable.
major screw ups in science are actually not that rare.
Us bio-nerds remember well the HeLa cell contamination scandal. I think it was back in the 80s. 40,000 papers? A drop in the bucket compared to how much work was lost to HeLa contamination.
Moreover, the range of criticisms about the validity of a lot of biomedical research due to failure to replicate is huge and substantial. If the research community was brutally honest about this problem - it would be a huge black eye for biomedical research.
The software bug may actually be a fixable problem. Once corrected, if a quantifiable pattern can be identified in the errors, then they just need to compute some transforms.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
I love God’s sense of humor
Another one bites the dust.
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