| You would think crappy science would go down with progress? I think not. You should look for papers in psychology/sociology, AI (recommendation engines, accuracy), economics, nutrition and medicine. Marketing papers are also interesting, I guess. As an anecdote, I dug into sexuality, gender papers recently and was baffled at the amount of shit I came across. I couldn't believe someone published it. > Crappy science existed hundreds of years ago, and it continues to exist today. The main difference, as far as I can tell, is that we have a lot more scientists now And ability to influence a lot more people faster than ever before with increasing level of distrust.
Not to mention, papers from US and EU affects other nations perhaps more. Many people blindly piggyback due to not enough funding to replicate or perform our own analysis. Funding being scarce promotes hype and flock people towards whatever media popularizes. It results in a very weird disconnection on topics that are dependent on population, history, culture, and other location sensitive data. The base is contaminated, anything built on it is not going to suddenly turn into truth. |