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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 Runaway1956 on Sunday August 02 2020, @03:12AM (3 children)
That deserves a +50 informative mod. Seriously, as you point out, dissenting voices are smothered. Big Pharma has far too much influence in all of medicine, and psychiatry/psychology seems to be hardest hit.
I have some rather intimate experience with ADD/ADHD. Asked "How does it affect you? What do you like or don't like?" Answer was, "It just makes me mad all the time. I'm always pissed off, thinking that people are out to get me, so I want to fight." At the same time, the drug obviously robbed the boy of motivation - turning him into a passive zombie.
THAT is what kids deserve, because they are "overly active"????
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @03:42AM
Psychiatry is the easy target in the medical field. It is complex, most of the symptoms are subjective, many medical doctors don't take it seriously, many psychologists don't take it seriously, and patients/guardians want a quick fix.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @04:45AM (1 child)
Not to mention, without studious effort, professors develop a highly inflated sense of their own opinion. *You* work for weeks on a project and *I* give you a few minutes of whatever I can think of off the top of my head. And take 50% of the credit.
This is literally how entire departments work.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 02 2020, @05:18AM
That's life in the work place, as well. You can spend months trying to bludgeon an idea into a thick skull, and when it FINALLY sinks in, the boss takes full credit. I mean, it's OBVIOUS that you're a moron peasant, and the idea couldn't have been yours.