New paper suggests large amounts of collusion and other unethical behavior in the world of academic publishing https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1637>Academic papers are essential for researchers to communicatetheir 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.
>>16469092If 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.
>>16469748In 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.
Only third world and asian papersand uh all of social science
>>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.
>>16469092Thank God Trump will fix all this when he abolishes the Department of Education and seizes endowments to create the American Academy.
>>16470169I'd say a lot of financial studies also have some questionable motives/conclusions.
>>16470240Political mascots aside, do you not think that the current Educational System could benefit from some changes?
>>16470245I 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.
>>16470241NTA but finance is a social science.
>>16470291What'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)
>>16470298>NTA but finance is a social science.How come I see a lot of posts about how Economics is a "Math"?
>>16470454ChoicesIf you got thing inserted in you You deserve to see the tests results
>>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.
>>16470454It'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.
>>16470511Which entity will do the seizing and what makes you think they will do better things with the money?
>>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.
>>16469092You 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
>>16471552Get rid of DoEReplace it with TND
>>16469092I am anti-establishment now. Fuck yeah!
>>16470511if 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
>>16471552Most of these departments are a RICO scam. States should simply refractalize back to the neighborhoods
>>16471552Every state already has a department of education, so does every county and every city. Thats why a federal one was unnecessary to begin with
>>16469092Why is there so much lying in academia? There isn't even money on the line or any real reason to lie in academic papers. Are academics all just compulsive liars with warped psychology that forces them to lie in all situations?
>>16475572Having all the localities operate free of any communist style centralized authority will allow various different teaching methods to be used in different localities and by that means we will be able to find out which one work best and which ones at ineffective
>>16480174The inevitable result of that will be that teaching methods used in primarily white school districts will be the best performing techniques and those used in areas with large negro and latinox populations will be proven ineffective
>>16469832It's also how they prevent giving people a million dollars to faff about on some baseless quackery. The blade cuts both ways.Cutting back on this kind of objective review is exactly why so many retarded social science grants get funded nowadays.
>>16483046It actually how they insure that baseless quackery is the only recipient of big money grants. Just look at how much money is wasted 'studying' nonexistent, fictitious dark matter
>>16483106why is astronomy the most expensive science when it produces zero return of anything worthwhile or useful?
>>16486979the more worthless a scientist is, the more he needs to cope by trying to "prove" his worth showing off how much money he is able to waste.so someone like flemming spent a few pennies inventing antibiotics which is arguably the most important scientific discovery ever and astrofaggots waste $88 billion on jwst in order to discover nothing of any use or even interest
>>16488647Thats what materialism does to a soience nigga
