Should scientists debate charlatans in public forums?
What is the metric for debate success, anyway? Toronto’s Munk Debates decide a winner based on the number of audience members whose minds were changed. But people can be won over by many things, not just by the evidence laid before them. In other words, a debate might be won by the power of oratory and the charm of the speaker, not just by the quality of the argument.
Within the domain of professional science, though, the crucible of truth is not on the debate stage but in the pages of peer review, where criticism is naked and brazen. Facts must be proven, claims backed by citation and conclusions must flow rationally from the evidence brought forth. In medical science specifically, fallacies and biases are interrogated through statistics and the hierarchy of preferred study designs, which in turn are reviewed by experts in statistics and research methods.
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