No, the mechanism is increased stress, and it has already been experimentally verified (although I'd like to see it repeated). Mogil has a guess about why that might happen, and it's called out as supposition, not an "extraordinary claim". Other potential explanations include a few male rat-farmers who were rough with the rats, which made the rats edgy around males later in life.
Science is repeatable, not repeated. It's not true that one experimental result is meaningless but two are gospel. The first has a probability of being a fluke, and the second reduces that probability, that's all.
Indeed, this is true as well. Science isn't the right place to look for absolute certainty. But still, there are some obvious things you can do to increase confidence in a result, and one of those is to get other people to try to reproduce those results.
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No, the mechanism is increased stress, and it has already been experimentally verified (although I'd like to see it repeated). Mogil has a guess about why that might happen, and it's called out as supposition, not an "extraordinary claim". Other potential explanations include a few male rat-farmers who were rough with the rats, which made the rats edgy around males later in life.
No, the mechanism is increased stress, and it has already been experimentally verified (although I'd like to see it repeated)
Until it has been repeated, it has not been verified. That is how experimental science works.
Science is repeatable, not repeated. It's not true that one experimental result is meaningless but two are gospel. The first has a probability of being a fluke, and the second reduces that probability, that's all.
Indeed, this is true as well. Science isn't the right place to look for absolute certainty. But still, there are some obvious things you can do to increase confidence in a result, and one of those is to get other people to try to reproduce those results.