Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring

Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by virtuallynathan on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:25PM (#25605929)

Do we just have too many people doing “science”? Clearly people are getting funding to crank out nonsense, boring papers, studies that can’t be replicated, etc.

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Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by bsf_ on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:53PM (#25606255)

Only if you believe that as a society we have solved all of the interesting problems. Since this obviously is not true, I would instead focus on the way we evaluate science to improve it.

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Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by virtuallynathan on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:25PM (#25608420)

I’m mostly suggesting the money isn’t well distributed, and I’m pretty sure that’s due to the misaligned incentives. If we incentivized outcomes we care about, I suspect more money would come naturally from the results.

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