fiat_lux,

“The experiment is bullshit, we just can’t measure shit.”

The experiment is limited by our existing tools and evidence, and this will impact both its accuracy and our interpretation of the results, but it's the best we have for now and still worthwhile as a way of producing additional evidence for other researchers.

Also, researchers typically don't condense information into soundbites well, which prevents people from easily understanding and remembering the accurate information. Which allows bad interpretations by other people of the researchers interpretations of rough results to gain traction.

In other words, normal science problems.

An experiment isn't bullshit just because we can't achieve perfection in methodology or human analysis. And we can't refine our theories and tools without multiple inaccurate answers being compared to find congruence.

The bullshit starts with the people whose theories which rely on the inaccurate parts refuse to modify the theory when the evidence disagrees.

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