If you're any good at your chosen specialty you get a "feel" for the bullshit. I know this doesn't help the public. My experience is in medical research, crysta

If you're any good at your chosen specialty you get a "feel" for the bullshit. I know this doesn't help the public. My experience is in medical research, crystallography, and computer science. Here's an example for detecting "bullshit" in cardiology: call up the MD PI from the published paper and ask to review anonymized charts from patients targeted with the procedure. Are there any? Then, the research is probably good; are there none? It's probably because it'd kill the patient. Similarly, in Programming Language Theory: we'd just ask which popular compilers added the pass. Is it on in -O3 in LLVM? Serious fucking result; is it in some dodgy branch in GHC? Not useful.