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After spend an hour reading Retraction Watch it's absolutely clear to me that academic scientific publishing has nothing to do with verifying correctness and ev
by infamouscow 11y ago
After spend an hour reading Retraction Watch it's absolutely clear to me that academic scientific publishing has nothing to do with verifying correctness and everything to do with politics. [1]
[1]: http://retractionwatch.com/ http://retractionwatch.com/
- Jweb_Guru 11y agoThe idea that peer review has nothing to do with verifying correctness is extremely misguided (as would the idea be that politics don't enter into it at all). Or do you feel that the existence of retractions invalidates the entire scientific process?
- infamouscow 11y agoThere is no scientific process. If you spend some time looking at the posts you'll see that the reason for the retraction there has to do with skewing results to match the views of the those funding research and/or to sway opinion in a direction.
- Jweb_Guru 11y agoRetraction Watch itself has the title, "Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process." So clearly they believe that there is such a thing as the scientific process. Retractions are an important part of it--science needs to be robust to mistakes.