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Completely agreed. While I strongly believe in citizen science and people's right (and perhaps obligation) to critique established science, there is just so mu
by quanto 4y ago
Completely agreed. While I strongly believe in citizen science and people's right (and perhaps obligation) to critique established science, there is just so much poor analyses done by people to criticize some scientific findings they do not approve, motivated emotionally or otherwise. This phenomenon does not bring us closer to finding scientific facts or resolving the replication crisis. People should learn some basic analytic tools first.
- j3th9n 4y agoScientific facts do not exist, scientific observations do.
- bigfudge 4y agoWe should really just do (and certainly publish) less research.
- bigfudge 4y agoI can see why this has been downvoted, but I didn’t mean to sound like a luddite. I really just think there is a lot of low quality research, especially in the social sciences, done primarily to keep an publishing schedule up for pressured academics. We’d often be better to spend more time thinking about and planning fewer better studies.