Submitted 6 days ago by Hjalamanger@feddit.nu to [deleted]
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The previous page i visited had that image and apparently my phone really liked it. The guy in the image is apparently named Olle Alkholm
The title plus the image made me think it was going to be some kind of philosophical problem of if you can get multiple jesus if you cut him up like starfish
These stupid science bitchs keep being wrong sometimes! But you know who’s never wrong? That’s right! Jesus!
Lot of reasons behind the replication crisis that basically boil down to two main things. 1) fraud and 2) really miniscule stuff that isn’t practical to consider.
So 1 is pretty self explanatory. 2 for an example can be something as minute as a slight temperature change in what the animal facility is kept at. Or even the time of day animals or cells were treated.
This man is not letting us replicate. *bzzt* *crackle*
If you’ve ever went to med school, you’ll know most people do medical research not for the love of research, but because it’s great to put on a resume. If thousands of med students and their mentors are only trying to get published for their resume, then the quality of the research is irrelevant for their purposes.
Basically, capitalism is the problem.
It seems like this problem would persist anywhere where med students have preferences in where they want to be hired. If med students in a communist country know that they might be sent to work in a hospital in the middle of a corn field, or in a hospital in a trendy city near a beautiful beach, they will do everything they can to be placed in the latter.
Scarcity is a fact of life. Med students in capitalism are incentivised by survival. You need this job to live. Under a socialist system, you don’t need this job to live, so the pressure to compete is less. So the volume of junk research would be less.
Comrade Lysenko has entered the chat
Yes the Wikipedia app has this problem
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Relevant xkcd
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