• Indian J Med Ethics · Apr 2017

    "Trust the researchers": flying in the face of evidence.

    • John H Noble.
    • Emeritus Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 408 Rio Grande Loop, Georgetown, Texas 78633-4786, India,. aiswarya14897@gmail.com.
    • Indian J Med Ethics. 2017 Apr 1; 2 (2): 131.

    AbstractThere are always rival hypotheses to explain away the one that is posited as the most likely to be true. Context and Occam's razor - the principle that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected - ultimately point to which hypothesis is the most likely to be true.

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