Reading a Microgravity Claim: a Field Guide
How should a reader judge a press release announcing that something was "made better in space"?
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ask six questions.
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- 1
Was there a ground control run at the same time with the same materials?
- 2
Was the improvement measured, and by whom?
- 3
Has it been repeated?
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