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> Absolutely terrifying. Indeed. We seem to be increasingly awash with evidence that the standards of rigour in academic journals across a number of fields are
by bartread 8y ago
> Absolutely terrifying.
Indeed. We seem to be increasingly awash with evidence that the standards of rigour in academic journals across a number of fields are... quite poor.
Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose set out to demonstrate this in the field of grievance studies by submitting and, in some cases, successfully publishing a series of fake papers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
I mean, in some sense this is highly entertaining for the rest of us, but it is also utterly horrifying.
- marcus_holmes 8y agoThat's not the first time fake papers have been published and even cited. No researcher has the time to read all the papers published in their field. There are no penalties for publishing bad science, and no rewards for debunking it. Recent moves to stop p-hacking by removing the need to show statistical significance will (if they get through) only make this worse. Something has to change.