Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by inglor_cz 295 days ago
It does not. There is a lot of useless papers produced because of the "publish or perish" pressure, and even harder sciences have a massive reproduction crisis.

Feynman diagnosed this sort of cosplay as "cargo-cult science" decades ago.

1 comments

There are a greater number of useless internet posts produced within the same period, and the `useless/total` ratio is higher for internet posts than for scientific papers.