And this doesn't even touch on the fact that a significant fraction of the published, peer-reviewed, authoritative sources ultimately turn out to be wrong[1]. Science is hard. Data collection and cleaning is hard. Mistakes are easy to make.
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Ssssssh, we are not supposed to talk about the massive reproducibility crisis.
Oh. Sorry, my bad.
What about the fraud? Can we talk about that? Or the Sokal-oid "we'll publish nonsense" journals?
Seriously though, we should be talking about this. The greatest engine for progress humanity has ever built is rotting from within and its animated corpse is being used as a status-granting rubber stamp machine by the same old priesthood of "trust me, bro, God said I was right" but now in lab-coats instead of robes.
I absolutely loved the grievance study affair lol. It’s all too funny, but it’s actually a genuine problem that could lead to the eventual downfall of the whole enterprise, if it’s a massive towel of babel build upon rotten wood