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@jaeseunghahn.bsky.social Exactly the same problem in this paper: www.nature.com/articles/nbt…
@erictopol.bsky.social What is actually new here? Seems to me like by rebranding soda, candy, and instant noodles as ultra processed food, the authors are able to publish older findings about unhealthy habits as new?
@philipcball.bsky.social Great stuff! I disagree with the quantum mechanics analysis though. Why wouldn’t it tell us how things actually are? When talking about gravity for example, we (correctly) say that the earth IS orbiting the sun, not that it is a way to predict that if the earth is here, then it will be there next.
@philipcball.bsky.social I would say we understand weather very well, we just can’t predict it all that well. We also understand how evolution works very well, but that doesn’t mean we can predict what the outcomes are in detail. I agree that finding the general principles is the important thing.
@dandekadt.bsky.social Yes, but not really the “same experiment”. When we reproduce what others have been doing, it is typically a smaller part of a new experiment. We don’t really do the same experiments one more time.