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The deluge of crappy papers must stop
Fields ranging from physics and neurobiology to cognitive psychology and quantitative finance have recently experienced a reproducibility crisis, wherein their findings have been impossible to replicate.
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
While evidence shows that more of the same leads to utter defeat, nothing less than more and more seems worthwhile in a society infected by the growth mania. The desperate plea is not only for more bombs and more police, more medical examinations and more teachers, but also for more information and research. The editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of A
... See moreIvan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
The point about the laboriousness of the process – possibly worth it if it works, certainly not if it doesn’t – reminds one of the physicist Leo Szilard’s visionary satire, ‘The Mark Gable Foundation’, published in 1961. The story described the creation of an endowed not-for-profit foundation for the specific purpose of slowing the pace of scientif
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
This is one reason I’m not interested in journalism – I worry that if I have to produce specific articles on specific things within a time frame, they’ll probably suck.
Scott Alexander • Pushing and Pulling Goals
Among many memorable events, I saw a talk by David Allison about his efforts to correct simple statistical mistakes in the published literature. He would notice a clear and obvious error, like a claimed interaction that wasn’t actually tested properly. He would then send a polite email to the authors to explain the situation so it could be correcte... See more
Introduction to the New Statistics • The joke of self-correcting science: The Andero lab and Nature Communications | Introduction to the New Statistics
there have never been more journals, papers, and scientists. But a deeper analysis reveals that even