title: "Trust the researchers": flying in the face of evidence.
abstract: There 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.
authors.affiliation: Emeritus Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, 408 Rio Grande Loop, Georgetown, Texas 78633-4786, India,. aiswarya14897@gmail.com.
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Noble
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D020452:Journalism; D011643:Publishing; D012108:Research Personnel; D035502:Trust