Study warns that science as we know it is evolving into something shoddy and unreliable

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 7 years, 7 months ago to Culture
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Do tell..it was only a matter of time.

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  • Posted by mminnick 7 years, 7 months ago
    OUC, you have used the term Kakistocracy several times. What does it connote? I haven't seen the term

    Found it.

    kak·is·toc·ra·cies. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. Origin of kakistocracy. Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco– + –cracy.before.
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  • Posted by mminnick 7 years, 7 months ago
    The model is designed to show how new and unusual results advance careers even at the expense of validity. Did anyone check out this study, the model a, it assumption etc. to determine if they were the result of rigorous and painstaking analysis or done to get a new and unusual result out into the public sphere.
    To put it another way, is the study an exact example of what they, the authors, were talking against? Would not be the first time authors have done something like that.
    So what do you say Real or questionable?l
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