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We don't expect insiders to objectively improve most social systems (politics, business, education, defense, etc). Why should we expect scientists to fix scienc
by tdaltonc 11y ago
We don't expect insiders to objectively improve most social systems (politics, business, education, defense, etc). Why should we expect scientists to fix science (as opposed to just pushing the system to serve the insiders)?
- robotresearcher 11y agoWe do expect insiders to improve those systems. Why would outsiders know what needs done?
- WalterSear 11y agoWe would like them to, but it's reasonable not to expect them to.
- epistasis 11y agoSo the question is how is it broken, and what will the consequences of the proposed changes be? Are scientific papers meant to be textbook quality results, with absolutely no errors? Or are they meant to speed the pace of discovery of true facts? Because I would argue that they are meant to be the latter, that they are effective at that, and that trying to make them more like the former would slow the pace of discovery.