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aetherist:
Three myths about scientific peer review
https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-m ... er-review/

Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/

How to Reject any Scientific Manuscript
https://vixra.org/pdf/0907.0020v1.pdf

Eric Weinstein's Harvard Story - The System Breaks Down in Novel Situations
379,329 views  Apr 18, 2020  Full episode with Eric Weinstein (Apr 2020):

Zero999:
Fake science has a greater risk of emerging where there are vested interests. These can be political, or financial. Any field which has the ability to influence society, governments or the potential to make lots of money is vulnerable.  I question science when it comes to expensive pharmaceuticals, diseases such as certain cancers and COVID-19 and to some extent, climate change. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I accept anthropogenic climate change is real, but the fact there are people who have had their careers ruined for disagreeing with the accepted theory, rings alarm bells. I'd rather hear people talk rubbish and have it countered with facts and evidence, rather than them being censored in the form of them losing their job, denied a platform at universities, or not having any future papers accepted by journals. In order to have objective and rigorous science, there needs to be free and open debate, which means people should be allowed to question widely accepted theories, even in areas which upset people, without fear of reprisal.

There's a huge amount of fake science in certain areas of academia, especially the humanities subjects, mainly social sciences which have entire junk fields such as: critical race theory and gender studies.

Dr. Frank:
I like this classic one, Prof. Feynman on Scientific Methods:https://youtu.be/EYPapE-3FRw.

As an experimental physicist, I'd extend the methods to a triad:
1 Observation of phenomenon, measuring relevant parameters and collecting data to a most complete degree
2 developing theoretical description, guessing / formulating a law, or do simulation / modelling, to combine / correlate the collected data
3 experimental testing of theory, confirmation or falsification by measuring the predicted theoretical extrapolations, with different parameters/data sets from 1

Alternative / contradicting theories or different experimental methods have to be greeted, or should be welcomed in any case, as only their falsification will validate the other theory or experiment.

 Frank

langwadt:

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This is one of the most crucial points, and one which 99% of journalists and polticians don't understand.
I invented a headline once to demonstrate the point:

"Blooming Apple Trees Cause Flooding in the Alps."

Ridiculous, no? But sellable to a journalist or politician.

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https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Benta:
@langwadt: absolutely brilliant!
My abdomen aches from laughing. How on earth did you find that?

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