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Sadly, science has been politicized, and has had such perverse incentives applied at the University that it's almost corrupt. For example, peer review, (https:
by influx 4y ago
Sadly, science has been politicized, and has had such perverse incentives applied at the University that it's almost corrupt.
For example, peer review, (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/).
The replication crisis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis).
If you're not able to call out woo in science, I assume you're also a gullible mark that simply trusts authorities in a lab coat instead of authorities in a priest smock.
- gaganyaan 4y agoYeah, the social sciences are in quite a quandary with the replication crisis. Still, anyone that uses the word scientism is probably complaining about their favorite woo being called out.