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This sparks an idea... what if there was a tool that crawled all academic studies’ sources. Basically allowing you to see the root source of every cited study b
by dsaavy 7y ago
This sparks an idea... what if there was a tool that crawled all academic studies’ sources. Basically allowing you to see the root source of every cited study back to square one. Would make it much easier to discover studies based on a pyramid of weaker/wrong studies.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoNothing is stopping anyone with access to the SciHub corpus from doing this.
- virtuallynathan 7y agoThis is fun to do, but you’ll rapidly find that the academic sources don’t even say what they claim to.
- dsaavy 7y agoThe foundations of modern science seem to be quite shaky...
- farrelmahaztra 7y agoAlthough you could infer bad studies by citations, external criticisms etc, ultimately wouldn’t you have to look at the content of the studies themselves? The ubiquitous paywalls in online academic repos seems like a big obstacle to this.
- djohnston 7y agoIt would be useful. You'd also hit a new paywall for each journal, and the tool would end up costing thousands of dollars for anyone to use. You could of course I terrace with scihub, imo one of the most important tools in the last 20 years, but then you can't build a business on it