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Let's start with our beloved Brian Wansink: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-p-hacking https://www.buzzfeednews.com/art
by oldgradstudent 8y ago
Let's start with our beloved Brian Wansink:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-p-hacking https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wan...
The money quote is:
> "I don’t think I’ve ever done an interesting study where the data ‘came out’ the first time I looked at it,” he told her over email.
- cwyers 8y agoWansink is a fraud. One case does not make for rampancy.
- ekun 8y agoYeah this is a case of someone on daytime television shows talking about dieting. There are plenty of fake doctors making claims in this realm. The scary part is the acceptance of fake science into the general public and especially it being perpetuated heavily by a large part of our political system.
- oldgradstudent 8y agoIt wasn't just Wansink. Everyone around him knew and participated to some extent. His postdocs (except the one who said no), his PhD students, and all his other co-authors. They all knew and never said a word. When Cornell was told, they made some pious noises and ignored it until it became too public. Journals ignored all criticism until it became too public. This is a system that does not police fraud.
- anoncoward111 8y agoWhen I look at the grad school system, I am really confused. I really, really wanted to go to grad school at a top 10 history program, where I also did an undergrad honors' thesis. I was prepared to accept $18,000 a year as a living wage, and I was excited to be an adjunct for $35,000 a year with crazy hours and no health benefits in a small college town. Now I am paid usually $45,000 - $60,000 per year to talk on a phone to people who need help filling out a web form in order to buy something. It's a bit absurd. I don't mind this work and it is good money. It keeps me and my girlfriend fed and sheltered. Why is the university system so negligent and abusive towards those who invent new ideas and teach new inventors?
- nonbel 8y ago>"Either millions of students are overpaying every year, or the system provides some value." Its the former, except the government is paying for it... EDIT: I say this as someone who got paid by the government via academia to torture rodents for no reason for years.
- anoncoward111 8y agoI can guarantee you that the $30,000 I wired from my bank account to my student loan company was not given to me by the government. The government of course gave me the loan for inflated price of attending uni, but goddamnit I paid for it myself with my own blood and tears.
- nonbel 8y agoI had a scholarship.
- garmaine 8y agoGrad school, in academic research not engineering and MBAs, is mostly done on scholarships/grants. Your tuition is paid by your PI using a grant from the government (or sometimes a private foundation or company).
- anoncoward111 8y agoNo worries, we are talking about two different things. I'm saying that when a grad student or adjunct teaches a class, they get paid a few thousand dollars. The students in that class are paying 100x that amount in tuition. I'm implying that grad students should be paid more for this service, instead of the money going to administrator salaries and football stadiums.
- garmaine 8y agoOh I agree. It's just if you're doing grad school and you're paying with student loans, not the government, you're doing it wrong.
- cwyers 8y agoPeople rob gas stations, that doesn't mean that there's a system that doesn't police robbery. And that's still one case.