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[vinmantoo]

Dew,

I just took a brief look, but the guy is really stretching the point to the absurd. I guess it depends on what you mean by false and what kind of experiments are being looked at. You have stated co-relation is not causation so I know you the issues at hand. It gets worse now with people doing large scale genomic studies looking at how different drugs or treatments such as shRNA knockdowns affect transcriptional profiles of all genes, cell growth, death etc. You will always find some interesting correlation, but one needs to confirm independently in several ways, which isn't possible to do for all the or even many genes in large scale genomic studies. I look at such studies as possibly proving some hints with which to examine later in more detail if I see something that catches my eye, but one knows you have to sift through a lot of garbage to find a gem.

I am sure the author wasn't talking about all science.