🧵 Academic publishing rife with fraud
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 01:45:21 UTC No. 16469092
New paper suggests large amounts of collusion and other unethical behavior in the world of academic publishing
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi
>Academic papers are essential for researchers to communicate
their work to their peers and industry experts. Quality research is publi- shed in prestigious scientific journals, and is considered as part of the hir- ing and promotion criteria at leading universities. Scientific journals conduct impartial and anonymous peer reviews of submitted manuscripts; however, individuals involved in this process may encounter issues related to the duration, impartiality, and transparency of these reviews.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:08:28 UTC No. 16469748
>>16469092
If you think peer review is bad, you've never bothered with the selection criteria that decide which studies are funded in the first place.
In the humanities department, which projects are green-lit largely depends on single donors, think-tanks and political groups who push ideological agendas.
When it comes to medicine, the pharmaceutical industry is known to suppress all research that could implicate one of their products in a potential lawsuit.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:30:03 UTC No. 16469832
>>16469748
In my field grant requests and research proposals are reviewed by a peer review board, thats how they prevent freethinkers, individualists and other intellectual nonconformists from doing research and assure that the status quo will always be preserved and that no progress will ever be made.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:35:31 UTC No. 16470169
Only third world and asian papers
and uh all of social science
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:25:45 UTC No. 16470238
>>16469748
>the pharmaceutical industry is known to suppress all research that could implicate one of their products in a potential lawsuit.
unpopular opinion, but sometimes I do wonder if the witch hunt against the sacklers for the "opiate epidemic" was a misguided red herring to detract from the REAL poisons that pharma pushes.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:26:40 UTC No. 16470240
>>16469092
Thank God Trump will fix all this when he abolishes the Department of Education and seizes endowments to create the American Academy.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:27:52 UTC No. 16470241
>>16470169
I'd say a lot of financial studies also have some questionable motives/conclusions.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:30:37 UTC No. 16470245
>>16470240
Political mascots aside, do you not think that the current Educational System could benefit from some changes?
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:04:53 UTC No. 16470291
>>16470245
I am only being mildly facetious here -- abolishing the Department of Education is a retard move but seizing endowments from the Ivies and establishing an accredited virtual academy are both good things. While I question whether a Trump administration can achieve this, at least it is a possibility they accidentally manage something of value. Compare that to liberals who would ensure whatever they create is worse than garbage.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:13:26 UTC No. 16470298
>>16470241
NTA but finance is a social science.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:19:56 UTC No. 16470305
>>16470291
What's retarded about tearing down the Department of Education and building something better in its place? It's not like the DoE is some beautiful cathedral that has an intrinsic value for in terms of history or esthetics. Also how is seizing endowments a good thing? (Not the same anon you replied to)
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:45:06 UTC No. 16470454
>>16470298
>NTA but finance is a social science.
How come I see a lot of posts about how Economics is a "Math"?
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 05:54:52 UTC No. 16470459
>>16470454
Choices
If you got thing inserted in you
You deserve to see the tests results
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:37:07 UTC No. 16470511
>>16470305
>Why knock down a building instead of retrofitting it to be functional.
Seizing endowments is good because Ivies are a huge part of the problem. Seizing endowments isn't even going far enough. Those institutions should be sued into oblivion for scientific malfeasance.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:05:28 UTC No. 16470819
>>16470454
It's not though. No economist really has any clue what will happen to the economy. In every study, a monkey throwing feces at a wall has a better predictive value than any economist.
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:10:19 UTC No. 16470822
>>16470511
Which entity will do the seizing and what makes you think they will do better things with the money?
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:40:51 UTC No. 16471552
>>16470822
>Which entity will do the seizing and what makes you think they will do better things with the money?
I thought the 'plan' was to get rid of the DoE, allow businesses to set up schools, and then give vouchers(as in government subsidized tuition fees) that are then distributed to kids so they can ""choose"" where they go to school.
Which sounds like the current University system on steroids.
I wouldn't be surprised if the States were the obligated to create their own "Department of Education", which also sounds like that would be a non-trivial increase to the amount of bloat.
At least that's my understanding.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:53:28 UTC No. 16471562
>>16469092
You know what's the most depressing thing about growing up? Realizing that much of the adult world is mostly just teenagers with the veneer of knowledge/professionalism, I'm surprised society works at all
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 04:43:19 UTC No. 16471637
>>16471552
Get rid of DoE
Replace it with TND
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:02:34 UTC No. 16472627
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:37:51 UTC No. 16472772
>>16469092
>another thread fear mongering about scientific replication and publication
It would be one thing if you were actually interested in this stuff, and genuinely want to explore the topic of metascience, but these threads inevitably devolve into conspiracy theorists and poltard types fear mongering about scientists and the scientific community.
>>16469832
>The scientists are attacking the "free thinkers" and "individualists" like me
The science denialist worldview seems to be driven by a persecution complex.
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:53:57 UTC No. 16473597
>>16469092
I am anti-establishment now. Fuck yeah!
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:49:27 UTC No. 16473900
>>16470511
if the foundation is rotten, then tearing it all down is better than trying to fix a decrepit structure, more so when you also have to fight the termites during the process
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:28:45 UTC No. 16475557
>>16471552
Most of these departments are a RICO scam. States should simply refractalize back to the neighborhoods
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:49:49 UTC No. 16475572
>>16471552
Every state already has a department of education, so does every county and every city.
Thats why a federal one was unnecessary to begin with