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Can some billionaire not fund some sort of 'Academic Integrity Institute' non-profit - bust citation rings - catch plagiarism - flag statistical malpractice/

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• alephnerd 3y ago
  What's the point? Most R&D is driven by Government Procurement or Commercialization anyhow, which can validate if shit works or not. A lot of the subfields with a replication crisis are those that aren't exactly "tangible", and as such don't have a quantitative way or vested interest in validating that stuff works as expected. If I'm researching a compound as a MatSE on a grant from the DoD or Applied Materials, it's on the assumption that tangible results will happen, and any attempt at fraud will be detected once commercialization or productionizing kicks in. At the end of the day, a field like Pure Math or Anthropology just doesn't have a commercial incentive that forces reproducibility because there isn't a tangible impact.
  • lupire 3y ago
    Why are taxpayers paying these people to tell us lies about things that don't matter? That's doubly wrong, even worse than truths that don't matter.
    • alephnerd 3y ago
      > Why are taxpayers paying these people to tell us lies about things that don't matter Research that gets federal grantmaking attached to it essentially gets validated at the production stage. Fields dealing with a severe replication crisis are also those which aren't validating or productionizing research.