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> The frauds and bad scientists will be found out, eventually. That's nice, but some frauds could potentially be very, very costly for society. There needs to
by cryptonector 3y ago
> The frauds and bad scientists will be found out, eventually.
That's nice, but some frauds could potentially be very, very costly for society. There needs to be some deterrent as well.
- hgomersall 3y agoAs well we are discovering from 40 years of neoclassical economics being a dominant force in policy.
- zeroCalories 3y agoThere needs to be heavy deterrent, but there also needs to be room for genuine failure. A lot of research, in both academic, public, and private domains, is worthless. When you spend months, or years on dead end research it can be a disaster for your career. The temptation to misrepresent or fabricate results is strong in those situations.
- Eji1700 3y agoThat’s the problem. Spending years to fail in research shouldn’t nuke your career. Finding out it’s not worth doing is as, if not more, important as finding the way to do it
- robwwilliams 3y agoBiomedical science is not self-correcting on any reasonable time scale. Ten to twenty year errors and distractions are common, and can have a huge direct and indirect cost. Alzheimer’s disease research and the APP mania is a case in point.
- swyx 3y agoAPP Mania?
- dmoy 3y agoAmyloid precursor protein The original study on that from like 2006 turns out to be faked https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...
- systemvoltage 3y agoOnly if we can question experts. That seems to get you in trouble.