According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported in the journal Nature, 70% of them failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments (50% failed to reproduce their own experiment). These numbers differ among disciplines
chemistry: 90% (60%), biology: 80% (60%), physics and engineering: 70% (50%), medicine: 70% (60%), Earth and environment science: 60% (40%). In 2009, 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying studies at least once and 14% admitted to personally know someone who did. Misconducts were reported more frequently by medical researchers than others.
There has to be a complete rework of the current Scientific system. Right now everything is centered around publications, which in turn leads to a lot of unproductive micro-projects and an enormous quantity of falsified results.
If your job depends on you having X publications, or your financing relies on Y projects completed per year... everything becomes very muddled.
Add to this the general issue with Academic Journals and how they engage in widespread nepotism as well as just evident corruption... Well you start to have a major risk of systemic failure.
Grants should be reworked. Publications need to become more transparent and ideally decentralized from Journals.
Jaxson Walker
This guy gets it.
Hudson Richardson
>tfw BOD/CBOD analyst >tfw RPD always within acceptable limits
Lincoln Taylor
Science, like any human endeavor, is mostly bogged down with average to slightly above average people. Every now and again a truly exceptional individual comes along and picks the whole thing up and moves it forward.
Parker Stewart
(((Science))) is jus an echo chamber of "certified smart" Jews telling other people that they're "certified smart". This is especially true in climate and social sciences and psychology. For instance- people actually believe that Freud was on to something when he said dreaming of crabs means you want to fuck your mom. He was only promoted because he was Jewish.
Brayden Parker
Not politics >>/sci/
Luis Perry
tfw when publishing with data that I know is more or less doctored.
Benjamin Mitchell
I'm not sure about the other disciplines but physics is a bit different, most of the papers published are computational models that utilize very little if any new physics.
Isaac Lewis
Honestly I'm kind of disgusted of the modern science. It's just my personal opinion but still - It kinda sucks that those glory days of home inventors are long gone and now you need a specialized team of lab monkeys with billions of dollars in funds to get anything done.
China is shitting in the scientific well. The amount of absolute bollocks that country publishes is appalling.
Jeremiah Sanders
Get rid of the BS publication arms race Stop making them compete for funding Revoke credentials if caught falsifying results
Nolan Sullivan
>Not politics
There's entirely too much politics in science, that's part of the problem. The way the grant system works, the political leanings of the system (good luck getting funding for race difference research even though it has good support in the rare articles that exist).
Allocation of government money can't be anything but political.
Ryan Stewart
Oh and block anything China does because it;s always bs and worthless.
Anthony Hill
>When a liberal biology student chick you're fucking complains about getting caught plagiarizing
Jaxon Robinson
>Allocation of government money can't be anything but political. /thread
Nathaniel Brown
>There has to be a complete rework of the current Scientific system. Right now everything is centered around publications, which in turn leads to a lot of unproductive micro-projects and an enormous quantity of falsified results. >If your job depends on you having X publications, or your financing relies on Y projects completed per year... everything becomes very muddled. >Add to this the general issue with Academic Journals and how they engage in widespread nepotism as well as just evident corruption... Well you start to have a major risk of systemic failure. >Grants should be reworked. Publications need to become more transparent and ideally decentralized from Journals.
Quoting the whole post because this so much. The system is conceived to reward results but instead of incentivizing scientists to get them, you are pressuring them into forced results.
