ABM181- Genesis

Castillo, Paul Jean

Lidangan, Sittie Rainiezah

Asistio, Gicel M.

Through the years, different research findings became one of the medium for answering
curiosities but the concerns are increasing about the credibility of research findings. As time goes
by different people are attempting to revise old findings, and try to prove them wrong. How can
we tell if a finding is an absolute truth or not?

A lot of scientists came up with different theories about where we came from, how we
move and what are the things surrounds us. By the use of different data’s it has been inferred that
theories only remain theories, some ideas became misleading to the public just for personal gain
of a scientists. According to Sylvia McLain most scientific studies are wrong, and they are
because scientists are interested in finding and careers rather than truth. Based on that statement
you can’t easily say that a theory can be true or just misleading facts but we highly believe that
every perspective matters before arguing on things. One of the factors why not all research
findings are true is because there are studies that have the same question or same research topic
but have different results which can result to many confusion. We can know that a study is false
when it was disapproved by a larger or better studies. It's because there are more studies that
don't support the findings. For instances like early medicine which says a kind of vitamin can
help to reduce heart attack or any ailments but years later comprehensive research findings found
out that it is not true and it doesn't have impact at all. Usually drug companies are competing
with each other to discover first medicine to any ailments so not all of them will have the same
result after the experiment. Not all research findings are absolute truth because of the fake news,
Fake news comes thick and fast, on national issues and in international politics. The public
reaction to it varies from great concern and offence to a sense of being entertained. One of the
main problems with fake news is that fabricated stories look real hindi na natin alam kung tama
or totoo ba so basically we just come along and support it with out knowing na fake or false
news lang ba ito – that is their key distinguishing feature. They are believed, shared and
circulated by people, thus making fake news what it is, “legit” for consumers-cum-multipliers of
news. The role of technology in our societies has changed the nature, scale, speed and direction
of disinformation. Digital technologies have turned fake news into a new form of 21st century
propaganda. Apart from the challenge of making sense of what fake news is, one can observe a
worrying tendency to counter it before understanding it.
 We conclude that Not all you find as a news or research are all true we can be easily fall
for it without knowing so we have to find some proof to know that our researching is true and
reliable. Not all research findings are true but in these current years it can be easily avoided since
there more advance technology to prevent mistakes like mismeasurement, bias, manipulation and
experimentation.

Reference:

Ioannidies JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124.
Doi:10.1371/Journal.pmed.0020124

McLain,S.,2013. Many Scientific Studies are Ultimately Proved Wrong; The Guardian

Argawal, N., 2017. Understanding Fake News. Constitutional Rights Foundation. pp1-9