More Folks Catching On

[selenite0]

Cracked just posted an article on how "Science is Totally Broken". Nice to see outfits more popular than Slate Star Codex noticing that lots of published science papers are terrible. Cracked is still having blind spots. They saved the #1 spot for the horror of science swayed by corporate funding . . . but they don't realize that government funding agencies have agendas of their own and you'd better be supporting them if you want to get enough grants to not wind up on the street.

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[drwex]

Yeah, I'm not sure if science is recently broken or has always been this way. I used to volunteer as a paper reviewer in my field(s) of expertise and it was a lot of work to try and explain why Highly Published Author was getting low marks because his study of six undergrads was... um, crap.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I think it's getting worse because of the oversupply of PhD candidates and graduates.

Six, huh? I wonder if the concept of "statistically valid sample" had ever been mentioned to that guy.