Re:New research questions the evidence for health benefits o...
by gyuserbti on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:53PM
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I have a lot of respect for Ioannadis but also find it reprehensible to talk about banning or otherwise forbidding large classes of research. Science only progresses when unfettered; prohibitions never help. If a study is flawed, address the flaws. More information might not help, but it never hurts. These flawed studies exist for a reason -- ideal studies are usually the stuff of fantasy.
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Re:New research questions the evidence for health benefits o...
by Talyen42 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @08:59AM
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The current system is absolutely prohibiting good science from being done, through incentive structures on the faculty tenure/review process weighing heavily towards frequency/quantity of published material. faculty review processes are mostly new to the last 10-20 years ("accountability" suddenly became a thing in academia), as the quantity of published material has gone up by orders of magnitude more than the number of researchers.