Having an open mind is a valuable asset. The willingness to examine all sides of issues is important when one tries to arrive at an informed position.
So I applaud Jimi for first posting the link that started this thread.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicati ... ng-science. I also applaud Bryan who posted another link that provides added insight.
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ees.2016.0223
Now I have been busy with other matters so have not read all entries in this thread. And I only read the abstracts of the above two publications. I urge everyone to do the same. In addition, I reviewed the citations listed a the end of the paper cited by Bryan and entitled, “Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentive and Hypercompetition”
Besides the authors that published the above two papers, there are a large number of professionals that have called attention to problems with the integrity, ethics, honesty, and the validity of scientific research. Below I have copied a few of those citations.
There is the tendency of many, if not most lay individuals to glom on to published research as if such were always legitimate. I you review the above to papers plus others listed below, I hope you will become aware of reality.
Richard F. Hoyer (Corvallis, Oregon
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Ashforth, B.E., and Anand, V. (2003). The normalization of
corruption in organizations. Res. Organ. Behav. 25, 1.
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Belluz, J., and Hoffman, S. (2015, May 13). Science is often
flawed. Its time we embraced that. Vox. Available at: www
.vox.com/2015/5/13/8591837/how-science-is-broken (accessed
September 16, 2016).
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Fanelli, D. (2009). How many scientists fabricate and falsify
research? A systematic review and meta-analysis of survey
data. PLoS One. 4, e5738.
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Hinkes-Jones,L. (2014). Bad science. Jacobin. Available at:www.
jacobinmag.com/2014/06/bad-science (accessed September 16,
2016).
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Laduke, R.D. (2013). Academic dishonesty today, unethical
practices tomorrow? J. Prof. Nurs. 29, 402.
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Smaldino,P.E.,andMcElreath,R.(2016).The natural selection of bad
science. arXiv.Available at:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09511 (accessed
September 16, 2016).
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Stephan, P. (2012b). Research efficiency: Perverse incentives.
Nature. 484, 29.
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Stroebe, W., Postmes, T., and Spears, R. (2012). Scientific
misconduct and the myth of self-correction in science. Perspect.
Psychol. Sci. 7, 670.