On 6-12-2009 1:38, Darren New wrote:
> http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ib/parapsychology_the_control_group_for_science/
> 
> An interesting observation...
> 
On the question of how many results in real science are wrong: in 
Medicine about one in twenty as everybody uses a p-value of .05 for 
significance.
That is for the measurable quantities. There are also wrong ideas, 
explanations, procedures, and theories. That is much harder to quantify. 
Within my own field I know at least 4 (including one where we may be 
wrong), but I have no idea about how many there are in total.

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