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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 Sunday August 02 2020, @03:35AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @03:35AM (#1030142)

    Schizophrenia highly correlates with the various gluten digestive disorders. Similarly, idiopathic anger after eating dairy is also strongly correlated with lactose intolerance (in fact it is one of the main diagnostic signs for infants and toddlers). There are other tenuous connections to food and mood disorders. There is also conditioning that can occur and be treated with CBT. Even so, I think it is a large stretch to blame it all on food allergies like some out there would like to do.

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday August 04 2020, @04:36PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday August 04 2020, @04:36PM (#1031280) Journal

    I think, though, if I had a mental health problem that one of the first things I'd do is get a food allergy test!

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