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> I lost a lot of faith in the academic world after that. I would argue instead that you have demonstrated the importance of peer review (a cornerstone of acad
by bachmeier 5y ago
> I lost a lot of faith in the academic world after that.
I would argue instead that you have demonstrated the importance of peer review (a cornerstone of academic research). The problem is not really academic research, but that we do too little of both academic research and peer review.
- chaps 5y agoSo what you're saying is that the current state of the academic world isn't working as it's theoretically designed to? Frankly, I'm not sure how that's supposed to boost my faith.
- bachmeier 5y agoIf you have a very profitable product but the manager decides not to produce much of it, the problem isn't the product, it's that there's too little of the product to help the company's bottom line. If there was more peer review of the type you described and there were more studies, we wouldn't be inflating the importance of unreliable results because we'd have ten other studies pointing out that it's BS.
- erdos4d 5y agoI dunno, I've met a lot of profs who take the attitude "if you want your name on crap, be my guest" when it comes to reviewing papers. They might check for glaring errors, but rarely does anyone work through the results for correctness.
- bachmeier 5y agoI agree but that's a sign we need more peer review. IMO it's unethical to engage in fake peer review like that. I recently encountered the opposite - a reviewer that wrote a fake negative review of my paper without reading it. Killed the paper at a good journal by making claims that are easily verified to be false.
- nicce 5y agoSo we need a peer review for peer-reviewed reviews.