[y45y45]

Is it the industrial research where the reproducibility crisis is actually manifesting though? Most evaluations I've seen of it suggest that while it's a universal phenomena it tends to be concentrated in the social/activist sciences. In most areas of industrial or applied focus it seems like much less of an issue because ultimately the science of boats has to be at least coherent enough to stand the trial of putting them in the water.

[OldGuyInTheClub]

Consider medical and pharmaceutical research being conducted at Universities. Stanford's President had to resign because the work done under his name was both very lucrative and very suspect. Theranos came out of Stanford as well.

A USC neuroscientist is now under suspicion of manipulating clinical trial data for a drug his company is developing. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-11-24/usc-neurosc...

A food scientist at Cornell got canned for p-hacking. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/26/651849441/co...

And so on.

[noobermin]

What the hell is an "activist" science?

[Projectiboga]

Akin to an Art or Music Critic mixed with investigative journalism. They dig around deeper if their b$ detector goes off while looking at an abstract or paper.

[paulspl]

Probably what we usually call "soft science" so political science and similar