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Science as we know it is evolving into something shoddy and unreliable

LowDown said:
This is more on the reproducibility crisis in science.

In brief, scientists are rewarded with more publications and grant money the faster they turn out "novel" and exciting results. The puts downward pressure on the quality of the science since rigorous work takes more time. More and more false results are published. The bad scientists are rewarded, and their labs produce more bad scientists.

A corollary might be that the higher a lab's output, the more novel and exciting their results the more likely that they are bad and their results unreliable.



One can envision an entire field of science being taken over by bad scientists.

And, in my opinion, that is what has happened to climate science. And it's especially bad because it takes many years to prove that their predictions and discoveries are false. And, when they are proven false, they've got their advocates, political allies, and scientism noodnicks to cover for them.
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What is your experience, if any, with scientific research?
 
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A U.S. Congressional subcommittee is investigating two cases of fraud affecting one Colorado lab run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The misconduct occurred in two separate cases, taking place between 1998 and 2014. We covered the most recent incident, in which a chemist doctored data in up to 24 projects supported by more than $100 million in federal funding.
A letter from the Committee on Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to USGS director Suzette Kimball details another incident that took place in the Energy Resources Program (ERP) Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado, in which another worker manipulated data for more than a decade.
The letter notes that, although the incidents were reviewed by the Department of the Interior (DOI) Scientific Integrity Review Panel and its Office of Inspector General (OIG): Read the rest of this entry »
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