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posted by martyb on Saturday August 01 2020, @05:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-can-do-better dept.

Nautilus has an interesting rundown on how scientific fraud happens and what could possibly be done to correct it written in comic book form. It's a fun little read and oh so true.

The book that it is based on, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, is worth reading as well.

Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London. His new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, explains the ideas in this comic, by Zach Weinersmith, in more detail, telling shocking stories of scientific error and misconduct. It also proposes an abundance of ideas for how to rescue science from its current malaise.

How many Soylentils here are in academia? Have you felt the pressure of "publish or perish"?


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @08:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @08:02AM (#1029688)

    IIRC, what raised the alarm was that mass killings went from around once per decade to monthly around a month after these drugs were introduced, and every investigation showed that the perpetrator had been on these drugs but quit cold turkey about three weeks before. The worst part is that the murderous phase is entirely curable if caught in time, with no chance of relapse if the problem drugs aren't taken again. There has been a concerted effort to bury the story for some time now.

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