Sunday, November 3, 2013

90 Days Worth of Tests?

To be science, a test must be valid and reliable.

Validity gets to, in essence, "test what you are testing."  Reliability is when the test done by others gets the same results.  Science is quite actually hard to achieve, so in USA we have dumbed it down so everyone who plays gets a trophy.  This from China:
Researchers at China’s Agricultural University have concluded that testing on transgenic rice has so far brought no abnormalities. The results came after 90 days’ of tests to see if the genetically modified food had any health affects.
Well, hang on.  If you are testing for abnormalities, 90 days is not likely to cut it.  Therefore, this was not a test for abnormalities, so it is not valid.

Now, it is likely others who repeat these tests would get the same results, so it would be reliable, but not valid.

China has many USA trained scientists.  I hope those scientists did not study at Monsanto financed schools.

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