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  "path": "/2026/02/07/would-you-trust-the-national-academies-of-science-to-tell-you-how-science-works/",
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  "textContent": "That’s just completely wrong. We absolutely have a way of “establishing causation” — or at least of progressively ruling out causes other than our hypothesized cause — which is by disproof of the null hypothesis. In the most common example with which almost everyone is familiar, pharmaceutical companies seeking approval of a drug are required to (at least tentatively) prove its efficacy by disproving the null hypothesis that a placebo is as good or better.",
  "title": "Would You Trust The National Academies Of Science To Tell You How Science Works?"
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