callouscomic , 4 months ago

To be fair, journal articles and scientific research in general have gotten to be pretty bullshit. Haven’t they studied this and proven the vast majority of published journal papers probably shouldn’t have been?

A couple easily Google examples of discussion regarding scientific publications likely being bullshit.

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists

Too much academic research is being published

More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record

Whistleblowers flagged 300 scientific papers for retraction. Many journals ghosted them

Top 10 most highly cited retracted papers

And on and on. Publish or perish and general shitty culture in academia is why I quit phd and took my masters and left.