A couple days back, Chris Anderson at Wired posted some junk about large volumes of data making the scientific method obsolete, misapplying George Box’s quote, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” I was a little too distracted to respond, but it didn’t exactly escape the notice of the science and skeptic blog-o-icosahedron.
Bee over at Backreaction responds. Several links to other responses at the end.
Update: Good Math Bad Math reacts as well
That’s just Wired trying to sell magazines. I’m a subscriber and they have a bit of a schtick I suppose you could say. I’m sure enough readers will write to complain and they’ll say something about it in a future issue.