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The replication crisis has been a long standing problem in social sciences and medicine. The former's darkest stain is its collective need to prove their precon
by iratewizard 5y ago
The replication crisis has been a long standing problem in social sciences and medicine. The former's darkest stain is its collective need to prove their preconceived world view. The latter's seems to be motivated by profit.
I'm sure nobody is surprised that zealotry and greed have made some of science as reliable as psychic readings.
- adolph 5y agoA more charitable interpretation of the tendency of error in both is that humans and the world are more complex than expected. Sure, there are examples of fraud, etc but my general intuition is that people are generally well intentioned and interested in honesty and that those qualities are not immunity from error. So, malice, incompetence or a world that defies our finite minds?
- WalterBright 5y ago> The latter's seems to be motivated by profit. The same problem persists in communist countries that don't allow profit.
- hex4def6 5y agoI think you can replace profit with "power". Publish or perish is true in most academic circles, regardless of government.