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Most research is kind of irrelevant outside of research which is why one can get away with dishonesty as no-one places big financial bets on the findings being
by RandomLensman 3y ago
Most research is kind of irrelevant outside of research which is why one can get away with dishonesty as no-one places big financial bets on the findings being correct.
- nequo 3y agoBut the point is that the retracted research is irrelevant even inside research. That is kind of a blow. It points to the discipline not being coherently built on shared theories but rather being a set of disjointed hypotheses.
- RandomLensman 3y agoA lot research is even irrelevant to the broader research community (beyond the specific researcher and perhaps the associated teams) - nothing new, I fear.
- ssivark 3y agoBut if that’s the kind of research that racks up tens of thousands of citations, does that mean all the researchers in the field are simply LARPing?
- RandomLensman 3y agoDoubt it. I cannot speak to that field, but references/citations can have their own dynamics and life. As the OP pointed to the limited consequences of the papers being retracted, the citations could be just "expected" nods to certain things in papers.
- kelipso 3y agoYeah citations can be as simple as "this concept was mentioned in this paper first".
- civilitty 3y ago> It points to the discipline not being coherently built on shared theories but rather being a set of disjointed hypotheses. My understanding is that this is one of the hallmarks of the replication crisis in psychology - studies that claim high effect sizes or otherwise high impact results without any plausible mechanism of action to explain them.
- 77pt77 3y agoSure. That's why the banking system is the epitome of the scientific method.
- RandomLensman 3y agoBanks use other people's money... but, yes, actually at the leading places people are quite thorough.