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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @04:57PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @04:57PM (#1029892)

    Well... Maybe you should read more about how antidepressants actually work. Hint: not like you think. The publicly stated withdrawal symptoms adequately explain the incidents that occur. Many commit suicide, some commit murder, most make it through relatively intact.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @05:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @05:43PM (#1029906)

    So much this, and if the mental health industry had the mandate and funding to provide the necessary supervision and follow-up, even just weekly scheduled contact with mandatory intervention when problems are detected, the problem could largely be eliminated. But that doesn't give political hacks their talking points, so it will never be done.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @04:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @04:35AM (#1030156)

    And yet psilocybin is Schedule 1 and banned even for consideration as a therapeutic.

  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday August 03 2020, @01:13PM

    by Opportunist (5545) on Monday August 03 2020, @01:13PM (#1030704)

    Trust me. I know how they work. I have a wide spectrum first hand experience of their effects, side effects, withdrawal effects, perceived effects, adverse effects and paradoxical effects.