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I think it'd be cool if there was a rogue batman scientist on the loose, self or publicly funded, who'd go around cleaning up the streets by replicating and for
by dluan 11y ago
I think it'd be cool if there was a rogue batman scientist on the loose, self or publicly funded, who'd go around cleaning up the streets by replicating and forcing retractions.
Why batman? Because he had to fight cops just as often as baddies. Not that the current system is necessarily corrupt, but that our current system is almost as blind when it comes to recognition of good science. Our current system is a bit, well, dumb.
- gd1 11y agohttp://climateaudit.org/ http://climateaudit.org/
- dluan 11y agoWe should organize a rogue scientist justice league.
- tdaltonc 11y agoI'm in. I can do cognitive-neuro, psych, and experimental-econ.
- gjm11 11y agoMuch narrower focus than dluan's proposal (climate science only); pretty much entirely one-sided (criticizes work supporting the consensus view only, kinda like if Batman only fought the cops). The guy who runs it isn't a scientist (though you could argue that he's a statistician, which might be about as good for dluan's purposes). So I don't think this really fits dluan's description very well.
- plonh 11y agoRetraction Watch is close.
- kansface 11y agoYou'd need a rogue in each specialty - I'm also guessing that replicating studies doesn't lead to tenure or papers in Nature.
- dluan 11y agoBatman doesn't care about tenure.
- cossatot 11y agoNature editors LOVE controversy though. In my experience they're not really interested in evaluating the long-term substance of a paper as much as if it causes (or pretends to end[1]) a fight right now. [1] It's really hard to end a fight in 4 pages.