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Agreed. I do sometimes wonder if academia shouldn't be blown up and replaced wholesale with something different. The new thing would have to have different inc
by cabalamat 5y ago
Agreed. I do sometimes wonder if academia shouldn't be blown up and replaced wholesale with something different.
The new thing would have to have different incentives, or the same problems would just re-occur.
- kspacewalk2 5y agoWhy blow it up? Just create something that parallels it, and organize it in a way you think will work better. Then we can decide which one to blow up once we see how it measures up. Some examples of where this is being done: open-access journals, study pre-registration, requirement to publish source code. No one's saying the old way is banned now, it exists in parallel with all those innovations. Some will stick, others will fizzle out.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago> Just create something that parallels it ... then see your new system get attacked from all angles by the existing establishment. Smears on TV, 'fact-checkers' in social networks, bans and cancellations, etc. The stakeholders of the existing system you are trying to replace won't go quietly into the night.
- Fomite 5y agoThey're not exactly going to go quietly into the night with an attempt to "blow it up" either.