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What problem is this solving? Are there a bunch of scientists who put random racist rants into the middle of papers? And if so, are these papers high enough sci
by chmod600 4y ago
What problem is this solving? Are there a bunch of scientists who put random racist rants into the middle of papers? And if so, are these papers high enough scientific quality to publish in Nature, and therefore they need this new policy to prevent such publication?
The article makes it sound like the answers are "yes" and "yes"; but I'm skeptical. I suspect the answer is that there's no real problem here with racist rants and the like.
Instead, this seems like a blanket policy that helps keep research from going in directions that lead to uncomfortable (politically-incorrect) truths. That sounds bad for science.
Then again, I assume this will mostly apply to social sciences, which don't have much respect to lose.