The replication crisis and the credibility revolution response will, at minimum, make for a classic of long-form science writing, like The Soul of a New Machine or The Annals of the Former World. But I’d like to see the movie too!https://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/1128476386631483393 …
Some problems are pervasive across fields; other are found more in some fields than others. The problems in string theory are not the same as those in psychology; string theory is untestable, whereas psychology mostly failed to do meaningful tests.
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Physics is subject to the problems I mentioned of hoop-jumping, group-think, and bureaucratic cargo-culting. Here’s a friend of mine who is an astrophysicist working on galactic magnetohydrodynamics:https://twitter.com/joogipupu/status/1128459891360710656 …
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Another astrophysicist friend of mine,
@drossbucket, with a PhD on gravitational waves from neutron stars, chose to become a web developer and do physics on the side, because she thought she’d get more time for physics as a web dev than as a physicist:https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/about/ - 1 more reply
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All reasonable complaints. But different. In particular the problem of "my work environment sux and is sub-optimal for thought" is rather different from the problem of "80% of what's published is wrong/garbage".
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Yes, agreed!
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