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Conrad_R_Hoffman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:24 pm if you Google LED lights and eye damage you might get concerned.

NP317 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 1:33 am I have high trust for scientific studies that properly apply and follow the Scientific Method.
This provides built-in safeguards to detect and eliminate errors and biases.
Honest Scientific Method is just as happy to disprove a theory as to verify it. Either outcome leads to Truth.

Having to fund research using monies from some company with an agenda is where it can all break down.

Pure unadulterated research leads to Truths, better than most other methods. I support such research, as should any smart Government.

John Hasler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 9:44 am

NP317 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 1:33 am I have high trust for scientific studies that properly apply and follow the Scientific Method.
This provides built-in safeguards to detect and eliminate errors and biases.
Honest Scientific Method is just as happy to disprove a theory as to verify it. Either outcome leads to Truth.

Science neither proves anything nor discovers absolute truth. The publication of a paper in a peer-reviewed journal says that the editor and the reviewers think that it is of sufficient interest and quality to be worth looking at, not that they guarantee that it is true or correct. The authors of such papers do not claim to have proven anything: just that their experiment (assuming experimental work) appears to confirm their hypothesis and therefor support their theory.

Having to fund research using monies from some company with an agenda is where it can all break down.

The work stands on its own. If the logic is faulty it will become obvious. If the data was falsified it will be discovered and the reputations of the researchers destroyed. Both these things happen, of course, as well as plain old error. Scientific fraud is more often motivated by personal motives than by bribery, though. Scientists are human. They know it, and know better than to take a single unconfirmed result as final.

Pure unadulterated research leads to Truths, better than most other methods. I support such research, as should any smart Government.

Governments have agendas. There is great danger in putting all research under the control of a single institution. Best to have diverse sources of funding. There are going to be "agendas". Better that they be diverse and competing.
~RN

SteveHGraham wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:46 pm You can't blame journalists for the 50 years we spent eating poisonous margarine and thinking it was a good idea.

AllenH59 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 12:50 pm I bought my house and shop 9 years ago, it has fluorescent tubes in the basement and in the shop, have never changed a bulb or a ballast.