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Well 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 foun
by traverseda 7y ago
Well 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.