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Science Badly Needs Defending Right Now. It Doesn’t Need Your Belief. (newrepublic.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The reproducibility crisis is a huge issue - there's even a whole movement now called "registered reports" where journals accept studies based on methodology before results are known, which helps prevent p-hacking and publication bias that leads to all those unreproducable findings.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, the problem is that proper science is incredibly hard to do, and incredibly time intensive and thus expensive.

    And since only a single metric (amount of published content) is really rewarded, anything else (including the fail-safes necessary for proper science) falls by the wayside.

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