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by dadrian 1061 days ago
The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors.

Giving up on science is such a vast overgeneralization. You could take your statement and replace "manipulated research", "scientific institutions" and "established scientific truth" with just about any negative article in any domain. You could just as easily make this statement about startups (Theranos, Juicero), or government, or religion, or suburbs, or cities...
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btheshoe 1061 days ago
> The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors.

Yes.

> Giving up on science is such a vast overgeneralization. You could take your statement and replace "manipulated research", "scientific institutions" and "established scientific truth" with just about any negative article in any domain. You could just as easily make this statement about startups (Theranos, Juicero), or government, or religion, or suburbs, or cities...

Institutions go through similar cycles of breaking and systemic reform. Not surprised that you can see patterns in other domains.

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strangattractor 1061 days ago
It often does neither:( The only real protection from fraud, mistakes and poor science is replication. If results can't be replicated by others it is not science.
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