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We need something akin to the international geophysical year, but for data integrity. Make it an interdisciplinary priority to clean house and root out papers

by MarkusQ 2mo ago

We need something akin to the international geophysical year, but for data integrity. Make it an interdisciplinary priority to clean house and root out papers that are hanging by a thread of included / excluded outliers, biased samples, and outright fraud. It would be humbling, but we'd be in much better shape afterwards.

foxglacier 2mo ago
It can only be done by outsiders. Everyone involved is incentivized to hide mistakes and fraud.
fliglr 2mo ago
Given what happened this past 2 weeks, I can't imagine that would be so popular right now
- MarkusQ 1mo ago
  This past two weeks specifically? I'm not sure what you're referring to. In any case, getting the facts straight generally isn't that popular, but it can be very effective.
  - Chu4eeno 1mo ago
    Probably that british professor who killed himself after getting exposed for fraud.
    - MarkusQ 1mo ago
      Ah. Yeah, that's probably it. So by the same logic we should lay off sex traffickers because Epstein killed himself after he was arrested?