The team delved into the structure and outputs of academic research. To their horror, the researchers uncovered a system that, in their words, “ends up rewarding administrators and empire-builders, not creative scientists actively engaged in research and mentoring”.
The post here last week about faked papers prompts me to mention this recent publication (which I learned about in Nature): an anonymous survey from inside several Chinese universities. It's quite interesting from that standpoint, and it shows that the Chinese institutions and authorities are indeed becoming worried about the increasing flood of low- (or zero-) quality papers that come from all sorts of Chinese sources. As everyone would have figured, this is a consequence of pressure to Publish, Publish, Publish, and Publish Some More:
BREAKING: The Washington Post just admitted that it repeatedly published disinformation fed to it by NIH to discredit WCW & defend Fauci from our true claims that he funded beagle abuse in Tunisia
Unpacking the story of Fauci and painful experiments involving dogs
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We Need Fewer Scientists And Fewer Science Journals
Academic journals and the researchers who publish in them are increasingly engaged in naked political advocacy rather than science. It's time we cut off public funding to peer-reviewed publications
James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe
Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed that the observation is not down to a measurement error.
Minding the Sciences Archives — Minding The Campus
Let’s face it: science has gone woke. What used to be an ideological virus afflicting the arts and humanities has now spread through the entire university, STEMM fields included. That’s why Minding the Campus is renewing our focus on the sciences through a new, ongoing article series called Minding the Sciences. Here, we’ll cover wokeism in STEMM, scientific integrity, research funding, climate science, scientific associations, and much more.
Why I Believe Academia is Dead: A Personal StoryWhen I was a postdoc at @wur, I supervised a PhD student who participated in a sandwich PhD program in Brazil and the Netherlands. She was married to a man who was also pursuing his PhD at both universities. Their conduct was… pic.twitter.com/Wm8ctZNwUg— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) January 24, 2024
Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists
Climate alarmists insist there’s a “scientific consensus” that says climate change is a crisis, and man causes it! Researcher Judith Curry tells me, “it’s ...
Government Corrupts Science With Progressive Nonsense
Fewer Americans "trust the science." There are good reasons for that. ————To make sure you see the new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://...
More details on an egregious failure of scientific publishing
In my view, and I’m not holding back here — We should not be in a situation where activist journalists, many funded by billionaires, enlist activists scientists to demand retraction of a scientific article and then the world’s arguably leading scientific publisher meekly obeys. We must do better.
Why Science Fraud Goes Deeper Than the Stanford Scandal...
Learn about high-profile cases of scientific fraud, its prevalence, and its impact on academia. Discover situational pressures and solutions while exploring ...
Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?
Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.
Dr. Peterson discusses the unilateral imposition of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and its potential impact on scientific pursuit.Dr. Peterson's exte...