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Maybe we should not trust authors that make vague unsubstantiated claims? The ingress: "Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet an
by nialse 1y ago
Maybe we should not trust authors that make vague unsubstantiated claims?
The ingress: "Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities..."
The article: nothing
This article seems more like part of the problem.
- nine_k 1y agoThe article does some real-looking statistical analysis. I'd love it if somebody tried to reproduce the results, as is customary in science.
- nialse 1y agoHaving unsubstantiated statements in an abstract of a paper is deeply worrying from a scientific standpoint. The methodology in the paper seems ad hoc, sprinkling it with statistics does not help if there is no firm ground to stand on, ie a sound method. Many of the reported issues have other explanations. Publishing has been broken for years and the system built by academia on top (publish or perish) has exacerbated the problem. Science is well and all, and as you mentioned, results should be reproduced, not only this paper's (with a better methodology preferably), but ALL science that has even the faintest hallmark of being published for publishing's sake.