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I know it's a lot harder to repeat experiments in biology than in particle physics - I said that in my post.

Just because someone uses weasel words ("possible") doesn't change the end result: It's a wrong result.

I'm not blaming them - I understand better results are not possible. But it doesn't change the fact that a tremendous number of results are wrong.

It doesn't help that they often search for very subtle results. "It helps, but only a little." It also doesn't help that everyone responds differently to things. It makes the research very hard.

Anyway, I was just explaining why p95 is not accepted anywhere else except biology - biology just doesn't have any other choice. They don't prefer such low results.



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