More on data

ReadWhen you use three different methods that measure and all give you the same results, you can take those results to the bank. If you have agreement between two different methods, you still have good assurance; but when only a single protocol is used, the frame of reference can be skewed. Even with accurate calibration, there is no tangible substance by which to compare the numbers to, so you introduce absolute error that may not be relative.
ThisNature uses a myriad of means to achieve the same goals - which we call biodiversity. Why is it that in the cause for efficiency, we as humans narrow down all choice to a single best tried and true method without even bothering to hold the controls constant and take the measurements that validate the theory. The current big science system requires too much vesting in unproven theories in order to acquire funds, then penalizes finding the null theory, the demonstration that theory is invalid. Many scientists have lost their funding by being politically incorrect in their dissemination methods (ie Pons and Fleischman).
NowJames Lovelock of gaia fame wrote a 1993 essay titled Small Science. Dr. Lenny wrote a similar essay 10 years later - so eerily similar that he didn't publish for it because it duplicated most of Lovelock points (read the lovelock essay right within a day of enunciating views).