Search Engine!

[porch]

I'm a total layman in scientific matters. When an idea, for one reason or another, seems "controversial" to me, I usually cheat it by going to skeptic sites and reading threads. Really, though, this seems to be an okay way to make a quick and dirty analysis on a lot of things.

Some days, though, I want to play honest-to-god skeptic, and get the raw data. It's recently occurred to me that I don't really know how to do that.

How do I know what studies to trust and what ones not to? What's a good way to do an internet search for peer-reviewed papers? Maybe I have to...omg...get off the internet and go to a university library? Where does one find these "meta-analyses" that we hear so much about?

any comments appreciated,

`porch

 

[Level]

Here's a customized search that weeds out at least a lot of non-science. It ignores over 300 creationist pages.

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008957609356441269197:-dtf6fd1j48

 

[AgingYoung]

...How do I know what studies to trust and what ones not to? ...
`porch

Porch,

Trust the studies that confirm your bias and disregard the rest. That's standard practice.

Gene

 

[Questioninggeller]

Here's a customized search that weeds out at least a lot of non-science. It ignores over 300 creationist pages.

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008957609356441269197:-dtf6fd1j48

That's a great link.