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Coffee Break: The Attack on Scientists and Scientific Research Continues, Plus One Great Result on a Vaccine That Prevents Cancer

Part the First. Convergence and Consensus in Science, or and how to interpret scientific results in context.  From Holden Thorp, the Editor-in-Chief of Science: Kathleen Hall Jamieson believes that scientists need to talk…about convergent evidence.  “Unlike declarations that a consensus exists, a claim that convergent evidence exists honors science’s norms of critique and correction by […]

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