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Part 1 : the diagnostic of the situation
Part 2 : the possible solutions
A great document by Corbert report in two parts about the modern science. The first part is a critical diagnostic about the situation, and the second part suggests some solutions to enhance the scientific process and make the findings more trustworthy. If interested in this topic you can also read my post on Hubbart excellent book (Corrupt research) here.
YB
Cumming, Geoff. Understanding the new statistics: Effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis. Routledge, 2013.
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In 1942, sociologist Robert Merton articulated an ethos of science in “A Note on Science and Technology in a Democratic Order.” He argued that, although no formal scientific code exists, the values and norms of modern science can nevertheless be inferred from scientists’ common practices and widely held attitudes. Merton discussed four idealized norms: Universalism, Communality, Disinterestedness, and Organized Skepticism. In this video, we explore what these norms are and what they mean for the scientific community. « A Note on Science and Technology » can be found at: http://www.collier.sts.vt.edu/5424/pd…
Merton, Robert K. 1973. The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. University of Chicago Press.
Source: Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)
In 2014, a researcher in France revealed a disturbing fact about the published scientific literature: At least 120 computer-generated manuscripts had made their way into academic conference proceedings, according to his analysis. Those robot-written papers, containing little more than strung-together buzzwords, had been created with a piece of software known as SCIgen, originally written on a lark by a trio of MIT graduate students in 2005. But in the years since, it seemed scientists had repurposed SCIgen to puff up their resumes and boost their professional status. This was understood to be a major scandal.
For Klemen Zupancic, though, the scandal was a source of inspiration. “It got us thinking,” the 32-year-old molecular biologist and tech entrepreneur told me this week from his office in Slovenia. Zupancic is head of sciNote, a tech startup that builds tools for helping scientists to switch from using pen-and-paper laboratory notebooks to more efficient online apps. (The company claims to have about 20,000 users, of which almost half are in the U.S.) When he read about the infiltration of academic journals by robo-generated text, he realized that the same approach might be used for honest ends. If software can publish scientific gobbledygook, then maybe it can write a valid scientific paper, too. So his company set out to create a program that would do just that.
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“I am standing for this role because I believe that psychology faces one of two possible futures. In one, we fail to reform our research culture and diminish.”
— NeuroChambers: My manifesto as would-be editor of Psychological Science
Les chemins de la censure: la réactance Technicien propose à Gull d’explorer davantage l’île, focalisant toute son attention sur une mystérieuse forêt du nom de « La forêt censurée ». Mais à l’excitation de Technicien s’oppose un brutal refus de la part de Gull qui lui ordonne, non sans menace, de ne jamais y mettre les pieds. Encore plus intrigué, Technicien décide de braver l’interdit et de partir seul à l’aventure vers cette région interdite sans imaginer à quel point ce périple le transformera profondément, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire. Ce chapitre traite de la censure, non pas sur les objets censurés, ni sur sa pratique ou ses acteurs, mais sur les effets psychologiques qu’elle peut avoir sur l’individu. La censure peut se traduire comme une privation, et peut en cela générer une réactance. La réactance psychologique, mise en évidence par Brehm en 1966, est un état de tension ou de motivation qui apparaît dans une situation où l’on prive l’individu d’un choix, d’une liberté, d’une action possible ou d’un comportement. C’est sous la perspective de la réactance que nous allons interroger la censure dans ce chapitre. Pour retrouver les sources, articles complémentaires, vous pouvez vous rendre sur notre site: https://www.hacking-social.com/2019/0…
Herman, A. (2001). How the Scots invented the Modern World: the true story of how western Europe’s poorest nation created our world & everything in it. Crown.
This subject is of paramount importance. Indeed, the mysterious appearance of the dynamics of modern science can be linked to Kabalistic practices from ancient Egypt. All the people who were pioneers in scientific fields were linked to these forms of occultism, and modern science has bleached all that esoteric past that is the source of what is called the scientific revolution.
The secret societies, the Kabalistic practices, were transformed in England into scientific and scientific societies, with the appearance of the royal society set up by Francis Bacon.
The mastery of the material world, brings us to the end of the path with the current knowledge that the current world is a universe of interacting energies. To what extent is modern science (which is supposed to control matter) not a form of magic that controls the energies around us?
The matrix was not a movie … this topic deserves more exploration …. do you see what i see neo?
Hubbard, R. (2015). Corrupt research: The case for reconceptualizing empirical management and social science. Sage Publications.
I’m reading this great book written by Hubbard a great marketing scholar about the current NHST paradigm in research. The author is defending the idea that we are producing « unreliable science » that is absolutely useless! Summarizes lots of evidence that the pervasive use of NHTS (Null Hypothesis statistical testing) is bad practice. The author suggests another model and defends the same ideas of Geoff Cumming about the new statistics based on confidence intervals instead of p values and open science in his book of 2013 Understanding the new statistics: Effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis. Routledge.
The book of Hubbard is a major contribution and alert toward the research community about the actual research paradigm that we can qualify as an « Ostrich politic » where publishers and academics waste ressources (time, money, effort) for advancing their careers through « fake or misleading » publications instead of seeking to change the system and to seek the truth! this is the noble objective of science, not citations, or rankings! We need a cummulative system that allows replication and integration of findings.
As expected no one is a prophet is his own country, like any established community, gatekeepers don’t like people who go against the mainstream doxa, and this book received little interest while it’s a major contribution and very urgent issue in academic research. Few are those who have the courage and honesty to say it loudly like the excellent positions taken by Barnett , or Kuntz , or Cumming ! but history will give credit to those who stood with a backbone for the truth.
I follow many groups in various disciplines, and this issue will be the TRUE CHALLENGE for the next years if we want to tackle the credibility of scientific research!
YB
James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian, the scholars behind the hoax
Over the past 12 months, three scholars—James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian—wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions, and tried to get them placed in high-profile journals in fields including gender studies, queer studies, and fat studies. Their success rate was remarkable: By the time they took their experiment public late on Tuesday, seven of their articles had been accepted for publication by ostensibly serious peer-reviewed journals. Seven more were still going through various stages of the review process. Only six had been rejected.
We’ve been here before.
In the late 1990s, Alan Sokal, a professor of physics … read more here
Marketing Science Institute (2018), “Research Priorities 2018-2020” Cambridge, Mass.: Marketing Science Institute.
In these videos, the authors explain the advantages of academic writing in plain text using markdown syntax. they also give a live demonstration of how writing in markdown works.
