| Earlier this year I was exploring a web3 industry 4.0 open science solution rethinking how research is performed, by who (or what), skills required, deliverables (no journals needed), a semantic knowledge base of results good & bad, validated through repetition, a framework for how experiments are managed. Here's my research on the 'Challenges facing Academic Research' - https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOkNfljM=/?share_link_id=58427... Quotes that I found important: "It discourages rigorous research as it is difficult to obtain enough results for a paper (and hence progress) in two to three years. The constant stress drives otherwise talented and intelligent people out of science also." - Anonymous "End the PhD or drastically change it. there is a high level of depression among phd students. long hours, limited career prospects, and low wages contribute to this emotion." - Don Gibson, Scientist at BioConsortia Funding "affects what we study, what we publish, the risks we (frequently don't) take, it nudges us to emphasise safe, predictable (read: fundable) science" - Gary Bennett - Neuroscientist at Duke University "We need to recognise academic journals for what they are: shop windows for incomplete descriptions of research, that make semi-arbitrary editorial [judgments] about what to publish and often have harmful policies that restrict access to important post-publication critical appraisal of published research."
—Ben Goldacre, The Datalab, epidemiology researcher, physician, and author "An estimated $200 billion - or the equivalent of 85% of global spending on research - is routinely wasted on poorly designed and redundant studies."
- https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... "As much as 30% of the most influential original medical research papers turn out to be wrong or exaggerated."
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201218#COM... "The BMJ found that one-third of university press releases contained either exaggerated claims of causation (when the study itself only suggested correlation), unwarranted implications about animal studies for people, or unfounded health advice."
- https://www.vox.com/2014/12/10/7372921/health-journalism-sci... |