As for ideologically sensitive papers that have already been published, blind that data as well and reanalyze the premises and conclusions, pairing them with Tetlock's turnabout tests.
Quote of the Day "I could sit here and analyze and reanalyze every shot I took today and why it didn't go in.
The panel had its own statistician reanalyze raw data from the studies to find out if the claims based on it were valid.
"What happened is that after he testified, they found his story had enough holes that it convinced them to go back and reanalyze the evidence".
Mr. Herr, the former chemical company lawyer, used e-discovery software to reanalyze work his company's lawyers did in the 1980s and '90s.
Hoping to reduce the scientific confusion about the role that exercise might play in the gene's activity, she and her colleagues contacted the studies' many authors in the United States and Europe and asked them, as a professional courtesy, to reanalyze their data.
"We decided we needed to reanalyze the complex dataset ourselves to make a better informed decision," Dr. Robert J. Meyer, a director of the agency's office of drug evaluation, said in a news conference yesterday.
"What he does," the biologist John Krebs writes in this anthology, "is to reanalyze or reinterpret the findings of others with such excoriating rigor, depth and clarity that he uncovers new ideas and ways of thinking".
