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Originally Posted by Libertine
How medical research typically works:
- A researcher has a hypothesis which he wishes to test.
- He teams up with other researchers and specifies a method to use.
- He tests the hypothesis empirically.
- He writes a paper on his results, and sends that to a (hopefully high-impact) journal.
- The paper gets a blind peer review by other specialists in the field, who will reject the paper if the methodology used is not sound.
- If the methodology is sound and the findings are significant, the paper gets published, making the data fully public.
- If the findings are of interest to other researchers, they will attempt to replicate the research, possibly using larger sample groups or a different methodology.
- They submit their papers to journals, which requires peer review, and if the quality proves sufficient, the papers will get published.
- Other researchers will combine the findings of several papers on the same subject in meta-analyses, seeing if they all have similar conclusions, which use the best methodologies, and what conclusions can be drawn from the combination of all those papers.
- Those meta-analyses get submitted to peer-reviewed journals, and if of sufficient quality, get published.
How saying something on camera works:
- Wait until camera is running.
- Speak.
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Awesome ignore what is said, and backed up on the videos with real data, and attack the source. Typical.
University of Calgary not a good source for you?