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I honestly love how archaic the science research community is. It's like we're still in the 19th century, where the claims made by people of high reputation are

I honestly love how archaic the science research community is. It's like we're still in the 19th century, where the claims made by people of high reputation are taken as gospel, rather than trusting a rigorous process without personal or professional reputation bias. All the bullshit about publishing for the sake of getting a grant, getting your name on a paper to up your rep, etc is amazing. Like the purpose of science isn't science but to play an elaborate professional reputation game that happens to include science.

NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
> Like the purpose of science isn't science but to play an elaborate professional reputation game that happens to include science. The scary part comes about 50 years ago when everyone woke up one morning and figured out that the "happens to include science" part wasn't strictly necessary.
adamrezich 3y ago
to my mind, this is the actually interesting psychological finding—that we, collectively, as a society, fall for this bullshit, time and time again, and we continue to reinforce societal structures that continue to let this sort of thing happen, largely without consequence.
- vacuity 3y ago
  Actual interviews of people being told about this fraud: "Oh no! Anyways." When most people are stuck in a rat race to get rich and "become successful", there's not much energy or reason to care about some drama, unless it's entertaining or political, perhaps. If my employer follows the newest workplace fads based on some studies, I might care. Otherwise, why should I spend mental energy (at the very least) trying to get the messes of scientific research cleaned up?
- dennis_jeeves1 3y ago
  >we continue to reinforce societal structures that continue to let this sort of thing happen, largely without consequence. People are morons, generation after generation, what else do you expect?

NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago

> Like the purpose of science isn't science but to play an elaborate professional reputation game that happens to include science. The scary part comes about 50 years ago when everyone woke up one morning and figured out that the "happens to include science" part wasn't strictly necessary.

adamrezich 3y ago

to my mind, this is the actually interesting psychological finding—that we, collectively, as a society, fall for this bullshit, time and time again, and we continue to reinforce societal structures that continue to let this sort of thing happen, largely without consequence.

vacuity 3y ago
Actual interviews of people being told about this fraud: "Oh no! Anyways." When most people are stuck in a rat race to get rich and "become successful", there's not much energy or reason to care about some drama, unless it's entertaining or political, perhaps. If my employer follows the newest workplace fads based on some studies, I might care. Otherwise, why should I spend mental energy (at the very least) trying to get the messes of scientific research cleaned up?
dennis_jeeves1 3y ago
>we continue to reinforce societal structures that continue to let this sort of thing happen, largely without consequence. People are morons, generation after generation, what else do you expect?