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> If there is one thing it's time for then it's for academia to get out of their ivory tower and face the real world. I dont disagree but there is a deeper iss

> If there is one thing it's time for then it's for academia to get out of their ivory tower and face the real world. I dont disagree but there is a deeper issue with the academic side of things. > Currently, peer review and grant proposals are largely done by academic peers. These peers can strengthen dogmatic ideas. Somehow, there should be a mechanism introduced that counters this. Psych in general is where the whole reproducibility crisis bubble up from. We're paying attention to it everywhere else but the work here is just rotten to the core. If no one replicates, and especially here, we have major issues because everything is fuzzy.

somenameforme 2y ago
While indirectly equivalent, I think the far worse side of the coin than "strengthening dogmatic ideas" is shooting down ideas that run contrary to dogma, precisely because they run contrary to dogma. There are some great examples in science, like relativity, where basically everybody just tossed aside the old and embraced the new. But those are absolutely the exception, rather than the rule. There's a reason no less than Max Planck remarked that, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."