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ANYONE EXPLORATORY RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS PUBLISHED SPECIAL EXPLORATORY RESEARCH JOURNALS COLLECTION ANECDOTES SUPPORTING THEORY PUBLISHED MAGAZINE LIST ARGUMENTS WEBSITE POINT IDEA THERE BUILD INTEREST REMEMBER ANGEL EVIDENCE CENTRALIZED NATIONWIDE PREDICTION MARKET ANYONE WITH THEORY LIST THERE GOAL EXPLORATORY RESEARCH PEOPLE INTERESTED ENOUGH IDEA ABOUT ANGEL SUPPOSE BECOME CONVINCED THAT EATING GRAPES CURES CANCER SUBMIT LISTING ANGEL “EATING GRAPES CURES CANCER” PROBABLY MOST PEOPLE DOUBT THIS PROPOSITION ODDS AROUND ZERO SOME EXPLORATORY RESEARCH CONDUCT SMALL POORLY CONTROLLED STUDY DOZEN CANCER PATIENTS SIGN FEED THEM GRAPES REPORT THAT THEM SEEMED HAVE THEIR CANCER AWAY TALK ABOUT CHEMICALS GRAPES KNOWN TUMOR INHIBITORS GRADUALLY COUPLE PEOPLE START THINKING THERE’S SOMETHING WHAT YOU’RE SAYING THEY MAKE BETS PREDICTION MARKET MAYBE SAYING THERE’S ONLY CHANCE THAT YOU’RE RIGHT IT’S ENOUGH SKEPTICS THERE MANY GLADLY AGAINST THEM HOPING PART GULLIBLE FOOLS FROM THEIR MONEY BUSINESS STARTS THESE RESEARCH PREDICTION MARKETS SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE-SUM MAYBE LOSER LOSES WINNER ONLY GETS WHEN ENOUGH PEOPLE HAVE MARKET VALUE THIS “MISSING MONEY” BECOMES CONSIDERABLE THIS MONEY THAT FUNDS CONFIRMATORY EXPERIMENT WHAT THIS MEANS THAT INTEREST DISAGREEMENT ABOUT QUESTION HAND THAT MAKES EXPERIMENT POSSIBLE WHEN BELIEVES GRAPES CURE CANCER EVERYONE’S PROBABILITY AROUND ZERO BETS AGAINST ANYONE ELSE THERE MONEY AVAILABLE EXPERIMENT WHEN YOUR EXPLORATORY RESEARCH COME WITH GOOD ARGUMENTS GRAPES SHOULD WORK THEN REALLY MAKE YOUR CASE SOME PEOPLE SHOULD WILLING EVEN ODDS MAYBE LEAST ODDS FAVORING THEM WHATEVER SUPPOSE EXPERIMENT RETURNS POSITIVE RESULTS WHAT QUALIFIES “POSITIVE RESULTS” PREDEFINED MAYBE SPECIFIES “EFFECT SIZE THINGS HAPPENS EITHER EVERYONE ENTIRELY CONVINCED THAT GRAPES CURE CANCER PEOPLE STOP DOING SCIENCE START EATING MORE GRAPES CONTROVERSY CONTINUES CONTROVERSY CONTINUES PLACED PREDICTION MARKET SUCCESS FAILURE REPLICATION DOUBT PEOPLE WILL WANT TAKE SHORT THIS VERY DIFFERENT ODDS THAN THEY LAST MAYBE COULD ODDS AGAINST GRAPES CURING CANCER FIRST TIME WHEN WERE GOING TINY EXPLORATORY STUDY ONLY EVEN ODDS PROBLEM PRO-GRAPE SIDE BETS FAVOR ANTI-GRAPE SIDE STILL WILLING AGAINST REPLICATION TAKES PLACE RINSE REPEAT EVERY STEP THREE THINGS TRUE FIRST THERE STILL CONTROVERSY WHICH CASE CONTROVERSY FUNDS MORE EXPERIMENTS ODDS WHICH PEOPLE WILL THOSE EXPERIMENTS DEGREE CREDENCE SHOULD HAVE SCIENTIFIC PREDICTION INVOLVED SECOND THERE ISN'T ENOUGH MONEY FAVOR PROPOSITION MARKET GOING WHICH CASE PROPOSITION BEEN SOUNDLY DISPROVEN THIRD THERE ISN'T ENOUGH MONEY AGAINST PROPOSITION MARKET GOING WHICH CASE PROPOSITION UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED SCIENTIFIC FACT PRACTICE THINGS THIS EASY SYSTEM EXCELLENT RESOLVING CONTROVERSIES EASILY MUCH MONEY NEED STUDY WHETHER GUNS DECREASE CRIME WHATEVER SCIENCE INCLUDES JUST CONTROVERSIES BASIC RESEARCH THINGS LIKE PARTICLE PHYSICS MIGHT SUFFER GOING AGAINST PROPOSITION THAT HIGGS BOSON MASS GREATER THAN ONLY COUPLE PHYSICISTS EVEN UNDERSTAND QUESTION PHYSICISTS GROUP DON'T COMMAND LARGE SUMS SPARE CAPITAL WHAT HAPPENS THAT SCIENTIFIC BODIES RAIKOTHIN EQUIVALENT NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SUBSIDIZE PREDICTION MARKETS THIS VERY IMPORTANT INSTEAD DONATING MILLION TYPICAL CERN BOSON RESEARCH THEY DONATE MILLION TYPICAL ANGEL EVIDENCE MAKE PREDICTION MARKET MORE LUCRATIVE SUDDENLY MARKET POSITIVE-SUM MAYBE LOSE YOU'RE WRONG GAIN YOU'RE RIGHT LURE FREE MONEY VERY ATTRACTIVE SOME ORDINARY PEOPLE JUMP REALLY SURE WHAT BOSON KNOWING THAT ODDS THEIR FAVOR MORE IMPORTANT SCIENCE HEDGE FUNDS THAT HIRE CONSULTANT PHYSICISTS MAXIMIZE THEIR LIKELY RETURN JUST HEDGE FUNDIES MIGHT LOTS RESEARCH INTO COPPER MINING EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT COPPER ORDER FIGURE WHICH MINING COMPANY BEST THESE SCIENCE HEDGE FUNDS WOULD FIGURE WHAT MASS HIGGS BOSON LIKELY HAVE KNOWING THEY WILL THEY'RE RIGHT ALTHOUGH NATIONAL SCIENCE FUND TYPE ORGANIZATION FUNDS EXPERIMENTS INDIRECTLY MONEY THESE INVESTORS THAT DIRECTLY GOES CERN BOSON-WEIGHING MACHINERY

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