Problem of science is corrupted funding, toxic environment, mafia-like organizations and practices, widespread corruption.
The current amount of bad science is due only to that. Unmanageable excess of meaningless published work is just a side effect of all above. Clearly it cannot change from inside, as current system select only those who agree or compromise.
A revolution must come from outside. Tools and platforms like arxiv, github, hugging face are already demonstrating that alternative exists, better ways to spread science and facilitate collaboration, increasing quality. Unfortunately they do not currently represent a real alternative outside niches, were quality, reproducibility and speed of evolution are critical. But also alternative tools such these can alleviate a minimal part of the huge problems.
I am honestly curious too see how “scientific” system will evolve, because it will. Because as it is now it is doomed to miserably continue falling down until it fails…
sndrtj@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Also certain fields (cough cough medicine) needs to consider more than just the p value. With any large sample size you’re almost guaranteed to find a “significant” result in some test, but the effect sizes are often so tiny to be basically meaningless.