More to the point of the article, it is becoming increasingly apparent that peer review does not work for finding errors in academic research. Refereeing a manuscript is primarily about rendering an aesthetic judgement.
My spouse reviews many medical research papers and grant proposals. His opinion is that people are becoming much more sloppy with interpretation and analysis of data. He asks the hard questions and this is not always popular.
Go after those fraudsters. Get them. The integrity of science and economics depend on people who are willing to do that , who do not need to fear their own grants will be unfunded in retaliation.
Congratulations on the 4k subscriber milestone! I'm sure this growth will continue!
What you said about the relative unimportance of political science papers rings true, although the ideologies behind these fraudulent papers do have downstream cultural effects that result in cataclysmic real-world harms, and what you are doing to expose the intellectual bankruptcy at the heart of these malicious ideologies is important. Keep up the great work!
You suggested that the fraud in the political science paper would be like a medical doctor publishing fraud in Lancet and not having it retracted. I presume you were being sarcastic, because that is exactly what happened with Wakefield and the immunizations cause autism study. It was eventually retracted many years later but is still cited by vaccine deniers.
People are dying at increased rates of heart related diseases and cancers because people are also falsifying medical papers in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Fraud seems to be the norm in almost every discipline, regardless of consequence.
Great update on your success with Substack, and your articles on academic fraud. Given all the lies told during the pandemic, we need to keep harping on the idea that the academy that currently gives us "science" shouldn't be trusted. PS. I don't care for the dark theme. Why not run a poll, like Eugyppius? (Or, maybe you already did and I missed it, or was in the minority.)
More to the point of the article, it is becoming increasingly apparent that peer review does not work for finding errors in academic research. Refereeing a manuscript is primarily about rendering an aesthetic judgement.
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
Glad your work is reaching a larger audience.
My spouse reviews many medical research papers and grant proposals. His opinion is that people are becoming much more sloppy with interpretation and analysis of data. He asks the hard questions and this is not always popular.
Go after those fraudsters. Get them. The integrity of science and economics depend on people who are willing to do that , who do not need to fear their own grants will be unfunded in retaliation.
Congratulations on the 4k subscriber milestone! I'm sure this growth will continue!
What you said about the relative unimportance of political science papers rings true, although the ideologies behind these fraudulent papers do have downstream cultural effects that result in cataclysmic real-world harms, and what you are doing to expose the intellectual bankruptcy at the heart of these malicious ideologies is important. Keep up the great work!
The Satan himself, Dick Cheney line still gets me 😂
You suggested that the fraud in the political science paper would be like a medical doctor publishing fraud in Lancet and not having it retracted. I presume you were being sarcastic, because that is exactly what happened with Wakefield and the immunizations cause autism study. It was eventually retracted many years later but is still cited by vaccine deniers.
People are dying at increased rates of heart related diseases and cancers because people are also falsifying medical papers in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Fraud seems to be the norm in almost every discipline, regardless of consequence.
Its a similar problem in business school disciplines, no incentives to reproduce/ replicate research, so lots of papers like this in "top" journals.
Great update on your success with Substack, and your articles on academic fraud. Given all the lies told during the pandemic, we need to keep harping on the idea that the academy that currently gives us "science" shouldn't be trusted. PS. I don't care for the dark theme. Why not run a poll, like Eugyppius? (Or, maybe you already did and I missed it, or was in the minority.)