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Yikes, talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water. I've been through the grinder and have my grudges with academia but what does that have to do with
by peteradio 7y ago
Yikes, talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water. I've been through the grinder and have my grudges with academia but what does that have to do with scientists in general?
- traverseda 7y agoWell it means that I can't presume that any given research paper I read is reasonable, or that the abstract has anything to do with the actual results they found. Which is a problem, because while I've found it relatively easy to tell if a paper is complete bullshit the academic writing style makes it really hard to skim a paper for those warning signs. On the whole this means I need to use heuristics in order to try and understand research on the whole, and while I believe those heuristics are better than just taking the research as gospel, they're definitely worse than a properly functioning scientific community that does good research in the first place.
- peteradio 7y agoYou must only be interested in Sociology I take it?
- traverseda 7y agoI'm not denying climate science. The material science papers I've read seem pretty unambiguous. Some seem intentionally hard to replicate, but when they have a video of the material exhibiting the behavior they're describing it's pretty hard to debate :p Sociology does seem like a pretty big problem, and I do think these issues are bringing down the reputation of science as a whole. But I haven't found nearly as many issues in STEM fields, although I'm seeing some very worrying trends in AI research and reproducibility.