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| May 31, 2021 at 15:26 | comment | added | Anyon | @stevec You may be interested in the book "Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions" by Richard Harris. | |
| May 31, 2021 at 1:02 | comment | added | Nullius in Verba | @stevec Strict scientific principle is all very well, but scientists are human too, we all have to pay the bills, and get along with our colleagues. Industries have a strong and direct financial incentive to root out sloppy science that overrides this, (and even so are by no means perfect) - academics funded by government bureaucracies that are themselves staffed by more senior committee-minded scientists not so much. (It's even worse when science gets political.) Evolution needs natural selection. It will take an even more major scandal than we've yet seen to trigger those inquiries/reform. | |
| May 30, 2021 at 23:48 | comment | added | stevec | Fascinating and brutal! Interested to know why the system hasn't self-corrected from this state? Other systems sometimes improve over time via self regulation or inquiries of various sorts. For example, various industries (e.g. telco, financial, fisheries etc) often go through multi-year/decade mires often followed by inquiries and subsequent improvements. Why don't the obviously imperfect incentive structures you outlined get addressed? Is the system too complicated? Are there vested interests in keeping the status quo? Or is imperfect system already the best it can be? | |
| May 30, 2021 at 15:27 | history | edited | Nullius in Verba | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 30, 2021 at 15:07 | comment | added | Buffy | Very nice. And, you aren't going to get a doctorate for this, almost assuredly. | |
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| May 30, 2021 at 15:04 | history | answered | Nullius in Verba | CC BY-SA 4.0 |