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Rationally Speaking #28 - Live! How To Tell Science From Bunk

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The Importance of Peer Review and Bayesian Analysis in Science

The chapter delves into the publication process in peer review journals, emphasizing that even controversial findings should be published after scrutiny. It explains the flaws in statistical analysis that led to two studies being considered pseudoscience, highlighting the differences between frequentist and Bayesian statistical approaches. The episode concludes with a discussion on how Bayesian analysis is applied in scientific hypotheses and the role of evidence in converging beliefs.

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