More proof the scientific community has gotten fat and lazy off of peer review (healthcare, conspiracy)

[ChestRockwell]

Academic Papers Filled With Nonsense–Literally :: The Mises Economics Blog: The Circle Bastiat

And we won't even go into the corruption aspect

This was the best part of it all...

Now befuddled conference organizers and referees–the experts designated to spot nonsense in their own academic specialties–can breathe a sigh of relief. A French researcher has created a program to help them identify papers authored by SCIgen and made it free to download. But such relief may be short lived. One of the creators of SCIgen, Maxwell Krohn, foresees an “arms race” in which ever more sophisticated computers programs are able to spew out better and better fake papers that other computer programs are created to ferret out. Nevertheless, Krohn does not regret his creation in the least, declaring:

I got a better idea...how about they just READ the papers?

[psikeyhackr]

What do you expect? They can't resolve collapsing skyscrapers in 12 years.

psik

[T-310]

Originally Posted by psikeyhackr

What do you expect? They can't resolve collapsing skyscrapers in 12 years.

psik

This thread should be closed based on the above reply.

[ChestRockwell]

Originally Posted by T-310

This thread should be closed based on the above reply.

But they can't..

[Wearefree]

Peer reviews and corruption?

Where people working in the same industry commit to agree or disagree with their comrades' findings in full understanding that they will be colluded with on their projects or team up against anyone threatening their funding.

What could go wrong?

[T-310]

Originally Posted by Chin_Muzik_NJ

But they can't..

I meant this thread should not be hijacked by some idiot 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

[dv1033]

Yep science has produced nothing in over half a century, yall should go back to typewriters.

Science isn't perfect, but the results can't be ignored.

[ChestRockwell]

Originally Posted by dv1033

Yep science has produced nothing in over half a century, yall should go back to typewriters.

Science isn't perfect, but the results can't be ignored.

This isn't about science though..

This is about peer review and how there can be nothing scientific about it and how it holds science hostage.

[dv1033]

Originally Posted by Chin_Muzik_NJ

This isn't about science though..

This is about peer review and how there can be nothing scientific about it and how it holds science hostage.

Well this has been how much of the science has been done for over half a century.

How does it hold it hostage? How is there nothing scientific about publishing in a journal in order for other scientists to replicate your procedure and discuss the results....

[ChestRockwell]

Originally Posted by dv1033

Well this has been how much of the science has been done for over half a century.

How does it hold it hostage? How is there nothing scientific about publishing in a journal in order for other scientists to replicate your procedure and discuss the results....

Is it really that hard to understand how peer review is a problem?

The article does a very good job illustrating how published papers were simply rubber stamped. Peer review being the "gold standard" is not much unlike.politics when money starts getting thrown around.

Sure, science has done much good...but that's kind of analogous to saying Hitler killing a lot of Jews is something that just "comes with the territory" when getting free healthcare.

Sorry to Godwin the thread.