Re:I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
by dnautics on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:56AM
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> Most of the ones that get attention are BS
Arsenic life was the big one when I was a postdoc
Tardigrade DNA is a new one, so popular that it became a major plot point in Star Trek. Turned out it was probably just a sloppy grad student not being careful with their samples/not taking into account microbes physically hitching a ride on the tardigrade
Re:I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
by foobarian on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:36AM
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> You can see it based on how slow scientific development has gotten
I feel that the cause and effect are reverse; while the low hanging fruit was available and getting discovered it was a lot harder to get away with fraudulent results. But now that we're facing diminishing returns and more fish in the pond due to years of overtraining fraud is easier to sell.
Educational institutions are rotting from the inside. Idiots were being rewarded at the expense of intelligent people and now the idiots have taken over control and rewarding other idiots. If you want to know what happens next, watch 'Idiocracy' or 'Planet of the apes'. At this rate, it will certainly take less than 500 years to get there.
You can see it based on how slow scientific development has gotten; there are very few major new breakthroughs compared to before... Most of the ones that get attention are BS.