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I can't speak for other fields but in Neuro there's plenty of this but often one learns how to catch it before using it in your own research, even if it never b
by NeuroCoder 3y ago
I can't speak for other fields but in Neuro there's plenty of this but often one learns how to catch it before using it in your own research, even if it never becomes a matter of public scrutiny. Unfortunately, I can't reassure you that bad research gets caught all the time. However, there's usually at least a couple of experts in a given sub field of Neuro that quickly call BS before something goes too far.
- jeremyjh 3y ago> in Neuro there's plenty of this but often one learns how to catch it before using it in your own research, even if it never becomes a matter of public scrutiny. And what happens when it is caught, it is just quietly ignored by the field, right? How often are there retractions?
- NeuroCoder 3y agoDepends on the situation. If no one cites it then it drifts into obscurity quickly. If it was actually cited frequently it leads to an investigation of work by all authors on the paper along with a retraction.
- rgmerk 3y agoThis is an excellent point. A lot of crappy research goes on, and nobody pays it any attention (except, occasionally, when cranks outside the field want to prove that "peer-reviewed research proves the Earth is flat). It's frankly not worth the effort to debunk a shitty piece of researchin a low-profile journal that's never been cited in a decade.