Or, there’s this model of the internet that most of it is *already* just bots interacting with bots for ad clicks, and maybe science turns into the same thing: most journal articles are written by bots and never seen by a human but get fed into some academic’s score
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Replying to @Meaningness
I'm less worried about the worthless grant-absorbers per se and more about the active suppression of real science via formal and informal power networks. eg: The popularity and influence of implicit-bias woo is bad, but the suppression of psychometrics is far worse.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
fortunately real science is so rare that there's not much to be suppressed
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There was probably as much woo and garbage 25 years ago but doing good science was much less likely to get you actively persecuted. Things have genuinely gotten much worse in that respect.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
I think I am more blackpilled than you on the ability of the existing academic system to produce knowledge in most fields even in the total absence of woke suppression
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @Meaningness
> more blackpilled than youpic.twitter.com/Z3XiWcuXUe
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Also, I didn't specify *academic* science. One example that's been on my mind for a few days is the guy who was doing gut microbiota transplants on himself and got viciously meangirled by Science Journalism. He got booted off a series of funding platforms.
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Hmm interesting > He goes on to talk about growing up poor, and different, in the Midwest. “When you grow up on a farm, you have all this freedom,” he says. “We don’t have any neighbors or anyone to interact with, so we’re used to just doing what we want. 1/
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