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I think "jail the professors" is too extreme. There needs to be a more constructive solution. I completely agree with your assessment of the problem.

• bambax 10y ago
  The better solution is to stop funding them, although I wouldn't know how to locate the source.
• nxzero 10y ago
  (Careful, heard this "story" about dcposch, he might send you to jail too.) On more factual note, it's a known issue that as you move from hard to soft sciences that positive results increase: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010068 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... Fields studying topics like "happiness" tend to validate their hypothesis over 90% of the time; which means something fishy is going on.
  • Ma8ee 10y ago
    Or they just chose to test something fairly obvious, like that people that are good at things are considered more attractive than people who aren't.
    • lsinger 10y ago
      ... or negative results are a lot less likely to be accepted for publication.