Most big academic labs seem like cargo cult ops, imitating the rites of science just well enough to keep the grant money coming in. You don't have to falsify data like this guy, you can just gather pointless but real data about silly things, then torture it like Wansink.
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USG went big on research funding after WWII, trying to keep climbing the tech tree. But that money firehose quickly selected for efficient extraction operations, not meaningful results. Whole disciplines, like psychology, turned out to be mostly wastes of time and $$$.
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Apparently we don't actually know how to build institutions that generate knowledge. Instead we get scholarship.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.