[Brakenshire]

> The truth machine is broken. How do we fix it?

> And why is it that whenever I see a list of the "top 10 most important problems" to solve, this isn't on it?

The truth machine has always been substantially broken, what has distinguished the scientific process is that it works at all. Our historical view of science suffers from absolutely enormous selection bias, in general we are only ever interested in following the stories which trace the threads of truth as they track through an absolute maelstrom of error, caused by nepotism, cronyism, prejudice, or a thousand other uncorrected human faults. 'Publish or perish' is only a modern progression of faults which have always been there.

That's not to say that finding improvements to the scientific process is not a hugely important question, but we should spare ourselves the drama of thinking our age has broken the system in some uniquely terrible way.