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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"?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday August 01 2020, @11:12AM (3 children)
Tell me how you measure me and I tell you how I'll behave.
"Teaching to the test", especially when funding depends on how the aggregate of score of the school looks like is as a perverse incentive as "your job depends on publishing".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Saturday August 01 2020, @02:59PM
Just like "if you do management by numbers, I'll manage to supply you the numbers you want".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @02:31PM (1 child)
Well isn't that the lesson you're being taught? You're an A+ kid.
Discipline is a way to root out the non-conformers. A filter for those who will put someone else's authority over their own. Well I guess it's for my own good, right? Hits self with whip.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 02 2020, @09:29PM
Functions very well in the free market, see the cobra effect [wikipedia.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford