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Current science seems like a real mess of wrong incentives living from past times prestige and being used as a opinion-laundering scheme in the worst cases. I d
by Ambolia 5y ago
Current science seems like a real mess of wrong incentives living from past times prestige and being used as a opinion-laundering scheme in the worst cases. I don't really trust any "studies" anymore unless they are successfully actualized in the real world, either through accurate predictions, or through engineering projects that actually build something.
- inglor_cz 5y agoAt the end of the day, trust attaches to people more than to processes / institutions, especially if the institutions are too large. I trust articles co-signed by Katalin Karikó, for example. She seems to be a very dedicated researcher. But this kind of trust cannot be easily extended to any random professor of Acme U.