Anonymous at Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:36:35 UTC No. 16630816

why can't she go home without data? bad results are still results, not every research finds something, 90% of them actually don't

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:18:16 UTC No. 16631753

>>16630784
They don't suck because they have to publish or perish. They suck because their job is literally to publish stuff yet they're too incompetent to do so. Add to that pareto principle for productivity and relevance of scientists themselves, you end up with a huge mass of useless out of place posers who should kts

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:33:59 UTC No. 16631767

The new normal is publish and parish.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:34:37 UTC No. 16631769

>>16631767
become a vicar?

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:50:03 UTC No. 16631821

science doesn't lead to truth. science is a branch of the entertainment industry in a representative democracy

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:20:29 UTC No. 16632103

>>16631753
>They suck because their job is literally to publish stuff yet they're too incompetent to do so

The thing is that not everything produces results that are worth publishing. In fact , the vast majority of scientific projects ends up finding nothing new or just confirming what was already known.
Science is basically a huge process of trial and error where you turn up empty handed most of the time, and putting pressure on people to find noteworthy stuff in everything they do predictably ends up in reams of garbage and made up stuff.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:09:31 UTC No. 16632123

>>16632103
Most of it is not worth publishing in a journal but there should be databases for all results, especially the negative results, so they can be searched by others for what doesn't work. Also sometimes there are positive results hidden in the data of what appear to be failed experiments, especially when analyzed in aggregate.
While we want novel success in research, novel failure has value but we usually don't treat it as such.
pic unrelated

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:53:40 UTC No. 16632142

>>16630784
There's no 1-sentence solution. The crisis is one small part of the broader crisis of society, which is far beyond my control or understanding.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:27:41 UTC No. 16632162

It was publish it perish

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:39:59 UTC No. 16632163

>>16632123
miss this fuckin show

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:02:09 UTC No. 16632176

>>16632163
>shopped here vs. shopped there
Hm.

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:10:21 UTC No. 16632620

>>16630784
>one sentence solution to reproducibility crisis
banish jews from academia

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:19:07 UTC No. 16632628

>>16630784
>What is your 1-sentence solution to the reproducibility crisis?
Make it so being a scientist can no longer be lucrative enough to be a full time job.

I don't think there are many cases of major advancements being made by people who are into science purely for the money. It's the people who are into it as a hobby. If Leeuwenhoek could pioneer microscopy and discover microbiology fucking around in his spare time as a fucking cloth merchant, we can let people get actual jobs and pursue academia as a leisure activity. If you're the kind of person that goes to do science for 8 hours for the money and then can't be fucked to even think about it their spare time, you are useless.