Giotras@poliversity.it to Science@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoThe ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining sciencemessage-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareThe ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining scienceGiotras@poliversity.it to Science@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
The ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining science @science https://council.science/news/the-publish-or-perish-mentality-is-fuelling-research-paper-retractions-and-undermining-science/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-publish-or-perish-mentality-is-fuelling-research-paper-retractions-and-undermining-science
minus-squareMalReynolds@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-218 hours agoMeh, retractions are best case. Publish or perish is causing -low quality work: anything with a .05 result wins, whatever the contortions necessary -zero repeatability: one of the science fundamentals, but not publishable. -related, negative results are not published -people leaving science for better pay / conditions cause PoP sucks donkey dicks
Meh, retractions are best case. Publish or perish is causing
-low quality work: anything with a .05 result wins, whatever the contortions necessary
-zero repeatability: one of the science fundamentals, but not publishable.
-related, negative results are not published
-people leaving science for better pay / conditions cause PoP sucks donkey dicks