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The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors. Giving up on science is such a vast overgenera

• btheshoe 3y ago
  > The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors. Yes. > Giving up on science is such a vast overgeneralization. You could take your statement and replace "manipulated research", "scientific institutions" and "established scientific truth" with just about any negative article in any domain. You could just as easily make this statement about startups (Theranos, Juicero), or government, or religion, or suburbs, or cities... Institutions go through similar cycles of breaking and systemic reform. Not surprised that you can see patterns in other domains.
• strangattractor 3y ago
  It often does neither:( The only real protection from fraud, mistakes and poor science is replication. If results can't be replicated by others it is not science.