But maybe this historian of science’s idea can’t work. Many doctors are prepared to slay beautiful theories for the sake of the lives of their patients. Have social scientists any similar motivation?
Peer review
The astonishing rise of junk science
Gillis’s overly respectful view of Correct science media stems from one key problem with his assumptions: He assumes that the rise of junk science is mainly due to new publishing technology. No, naturalism is the cause.
Why scientists tend to dismiss well-supported ideas that lie outside the paradigm
The problem is that people can come to think of approved stagnation as a duty and stagnating as a virtue. If a genius comes along, with new ideas, they have lost the habit of listening with expectation.
Journal Science wouldn’t publish failed replication of “liberal vs conservative” brain study
The researchers who cold not replicate that “conservatives’ brains are more attuned to threats” were dismissed by the AAAS journal Science with no reasonable explanation.
“Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies” produce bad science data
Robert J. Marks, author with design theorist William Dembski and Winston Ewert of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics talks with Gary Smith, author The AI Delusion, about how, in general, based data is produced Smith: Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy # 1 is that I’m going to prove what a great shot I am and so I stand […]
Learning from one of “science’s biggest frauds” (we hope)
Research integrity specialist: Too many research-misconduct investigations turn out to be inadequate or flawed
Most chemistry papers retracted for serious, not trivial problems
Trust science? No. Trust but verify.
Fun: Why do experts suffer from a “peculiar blindness”?
Epstein:The result: The experts were, by and large, horrific forecasters.
Another snippet from “Why People Don’t Trust Science Any More”
Today, if we are surrounded by dangerous flimflam, we may also be surrounded by blowhards puffing for “science” on its behalf.
Is science “broken” or has it just accumulated a lot of baggage?
The National Academies of Science is wading into the longstanding mess over the validity of research findings. It doesn’t, of course, agree that there is a “crisis.” That said, the report also notes that the American public’s confidence in science hasn’t wavered at all in recent years, despite major news articles discussing the “crisis” in […]
Sabine Hossenfelder: Scientific publishing is too much like Facebook
She introduces SciMeter.org where you can “Create your own custom metric and apply it to a list of authors.” And it is none of Mark Zuckerberg’s business or any science boffin’s either.
Doubt cast on new “exomoon” Rob Sheldon explains
Sheldon: There are red flags all over this data, but the investigators are standing by their measurement. This is what irreproducible papers look like in physics, and why the same crisis that afflicts other disciplines also afflicts physics.
Could the replication crisis be good for science?
Educational psychologist Eric Loken points to some good outcomes in terms of more open science. But, he admits, only one in four scientists uses the techniques.
At Nature: Surviving the “reproducibility apocalypse”
Researchers, says an experimental psychologist, generally know what they should do: Yet many researchers persist in working in a way almost guaranteed not to deliver meaningful results. They ride with what I refer to as the four horsemen of the reproducibility apocalypse: publication bias, low statistical power, P-value hacking and HARKing (hypothesizing after results are […]
Another look at the call to abandon statistical significance
In an era where even medical journals are urged to get woke, abandoning statistical significance could mean abandoning a refuge against Correct nonsense. As Brookshire writes, “Unfortunately, there is no single alternative that everyone agrees would be better for all experiments.” But that might just be what some factions want and need.