Comments on: Arsenic life creates a new blogger: Please welcome Steven Benner! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/03/arsenic-life-creates-a-new-blogger-please-welcome-steven-benner/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/03/arsenic-life-creates-a-new-blogger-please-welcome-steven-benner/#comment-16246 Torbjörn Larsson, OM Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:02:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4591#comment-16246 Yahoo, who said that poison couldn't be a good thing!? @ Bernard Kwabi-Addo: Agreed, but here we are discussing a study which people judge as not reproducible (if done thoroughly, without possible contamination, having supportable hypotheses, et cetera). So for better or for worse, the process can be improved. Speeding up response times usually makes the process more efficient. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot-induced_oscillation" rel="nofollow">Unless non-linearities of complex systems make stuff like in-the-loop oscillations occur</a>. Sometimes blog posting and commenting remind of that. =D) Yahoo, who said that poison couldn’t be a good thing!?

@ Bernard Kwabi-Addo:

Agreed, but here we are discussing a study which people judge as not reproducible (if done thoroughly, without possible contamination, having supportable hypotheses, et cetera). So for better or for worse, the process can be improved.

Speeding up response times usually makes the process more efficient. (Unless non-linearities of complex systems make stuff like in-the-loop oscillations occur. Sometimes blog posting and commenting remind of that. =D)

]]> By: Bernard Kwabi-Addo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/03/arsenic-life-creates-a-new-blogger-please-welcome-steven-benner/#comment-16245 Bernard Kwabi-Addo Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:40:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4591#comment-16245 Fortunately or unfortunately, this is the way it has to be becasue each manuscript has to go through a thorough review process by expertise on that subject for the much needed verification and authentication- we are all too aware of many scientific studies that are not reproducible- this waste a lot of time and resources that can certainly go towards better use. Fortunately or unfortunately, this is the way it has to be becasue each manuscript has to go through a thorough review process by expertise on that subject for the much needed verification and authentication- we are all too aware of many scientific studies that are not reproducible- this waste a lot of time and resources that can certainly go towards better use.

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