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This is a direct result of "publish or perish," which basically gamifies academic advancement as a function of churning out publications. You get what you incen
by api 11y ago
This is a direct result of "publish or perish," which basically gamifies academic advancement as a function of churning out publications. You get what you incentivize, and we wanted papers... we didn't say anything about correct reproducible results.
- WalterSear 11y agoAnd reform will likewise be pursued as fast as congress reforms campaign finance. To many people have their livelihood invested in the castles they've built in the sky.
- patkai 11y ago"their livelihood invested" - somebody said that "you can't be a true scientist if you don't rejoice when your model fails". As you suggest, a researcher today can't afford that. The best of science is done when somebody is "playing" curiously and without being invested in the expected results. In today's academia you just can't do that, or very rarely.