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Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly lin...
Randomly sifting through data in search of patterns is not an experiment in the usual sense. With a big enough data set, you're guaranteed to find one in a billion, one in a trillion events by random chance.
s1artibartfast
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Yes, but you can test those signals against future data and see if they are accurate.
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Finding correlations is not the same as finding one in a trillion events.
kbelder
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When you have a trillion possible correlations, it is.
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