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New "Is Sloppy Science Killing Us? "
Commonwealth Club.

It seems that FINALLY! they have caught-up a Century or so, re Re-auditing these programs.
[You had to Go To. The Bancroft bloody-Library in Berkeley! ..to find some cockamamie way to ... Do THIS simple thing.] {{sigh}}

See Site re getting it on iTunes. Haven't tried this yet; needless to add: heretofore theer has been--por moi--hardly any use for the purchase of a few thousand of the same-old/same. old. regashed guitar riffs and like that.

Sheesh: is Apple planning to sell us the entire Library of Congress stuff for a narsty-big Fee-via-©
Whatever happened to Copy-left n'stuff (?)



Richard Harris and Mary Roach: Is Sloppy Science Killing Us?
Richard Harris says that American taxpayers spend more than $30 billion every year to fund biomedical research and that half of all the studies funded cannot be replicated elsewhere. He says this biomedical research, anchored in a system that often rewards wrong behaviors, is needlessly slowing the search for new treatments and cures. To get and keep a job in research or in academia, Harris says, scientists need to publish results rather than get the right answers. Its simply too easy for these scientists to use bad ingredients, poor experimental designs or improper methods in analyzing their results. Join us for a startling discussion on how sloppy science has dangerous consequences for all of us.Harris is one of the nations most celebrated science journalists, covering science, medicine and the environment. Now in his 30th year at NPR, his latest research concerns medical science, or the lack thereof.


Maybe more fodder for ??

Is Drumpf-grade Medicine for-Yuuige-Drumpf-extorted-Profit ... any Way to "do Science" at all?
(We all Know about the pay-walls all over, re trying even to find-out What's Inside!! various "credentialed-Science Papers" ...UNLESS you are Inside a giant Corp. or Govt. Science cocoon First.

So if any of this appeals, there's (informal..) discussion of the more obvious aspects of this Soo-Ready-for Overhaul:
Murican 'Wissenschafft' aka Knowledge Factory

Some suggestions on say, your picking your Three "bestest" projects as intro for readers, so new reader may decide what to do re ..how many-dozen pot-boilers? you have also submitted {Publish/Perish is far from Daid.]



tl;dr
If'n you CANNOT SEE a decent Precís--let alone The Entire Paper--you cannot even form an impression of whether or not this particular Proposition features
palpable flaws in the Outline? the Method? (and especially: a manifestly good/poor presentation? of the whole damn constellation of Statistical koans: applied Well or, not-so-Well.)

Ed: PS I got into Rand's WaPo link via browser-'Private'. This time, anyway..
Expand Edited by Ashton Aug. 5, 2017, 12:28:35 AM EDT
New What? Now?
This stuff has been known for more than a decade.

Drug companies have become quite cynical after losing so many millions on new products based on "unverifiable" (read "bogus") research.
Expand Edited by Andrew Grygus Aug. 5, 2017, 02:29:50 AM EDT
New Maybe, but with 1.5 "PhDs" in U.S. Congress ... 'knowledge' doesn't count for much
"when your job requires not-knowing (all those things that..)"
New politics is like religion, you dont need a phd to learn how to fill your collection plate
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
New ('twas a predictable Freebie for you, natch.) Omitted corollary remains, though:
From [somewhere] "9/10 of Chinese 'Leadership' gots a PhD" {in Something.}
ie.

One country values scholarship aka a demonstrated ability to Think ... to some purpose.
Another one is anti-"Intellectual"--from cradle-to-grave--via Tribal design, apparently.


Carrion
Even rotted-brains provide nutrients for other creatures. When ripe-enough.
New That is why I've never been happier than when I was in grad school.
Academia is the *only* place in this country where intellect is not scorned and advancement is based upon merit.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
New Depends on the field, the group, the gender, etc., etc. :-/
New .. as does ~~ Everything a Homo-sap/or Group ...has yet 'institutionalized', right?
New My favorite comment on academia
“Academic disputes are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”

(variously worded and variously attributed)
New ..but, sub-rosa: its undertow supports ... the Std. Murican anti-intellect mindset, du any jour.
     "Is Sloppy Science Killing Us? " - (Ashton) - (9)
         What? Now? - (Andrew Grygus) - (8)
             Maybe, but with 1.5 "PhDs" in U.S. Congress ... 'knowledge' doesn't count for much - (Ashton) - (7)
                 politics is like religion, you dont need a phd to learn how to fill your collection plate -NT - (boxley) - (6)
                     ('twas a predictable Freebie for you, natch.) Omitted corollary remains, though: - (Ashton) - (5)
                         That is why I've never been happier than when I was in grad school. - (mmoffitt) - (4)
                             Depends on the field, the group, the gender, etc., etc. :-/ -NT - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 .. as does ~~ Everything a Homo-sap/or Group ...has yet 'institutionalized', right? -NT - (Ashton)
                             My favorite comment on academia - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                                 ..but, sub-rosa: its undertow supports ... the Std. Murican anti-intellect mindset, du any jour. -NT - (Ashton)

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