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I think a lot of knowledge about what is fraud is already distributed among researchers in their own fields but can't be accessed because no one wants to say th
by zaptheimpaler 3y ago
I think a lot of knowledge about what is fraud is already distributed among researchers in their own fields but can't be accessed because no one wants to say those kinds of things in public. The whole system of academia is shrouded in a fog because saying "X field is dead" or "Y research is fraud" is just not done.
But this is the same system that is unable to move off paid journals when the web has allowed ~0 cost publishing for decades. They can't effectively retract papers when the knowledge has failed to hold up. Like we have so many ways to organize, publish and review information on the web but they haven't adopted any of them.
Literally a clone of HN or Reddit with upvotes and comments could solve half the problems with publishing and peer review. Actually publishing your data and your scripts no matter how hacky they are can help replication. This is a problem that is technologically easy to at least attack and improve if not solve. But none of that has happened so i don't have much hope, for some reason they aren't able to change.