Nothing, NOTHING, in research raises my blood pressure like the "teach the controversy" approach to theory and citations.https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/1045039424038350848 …
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Researcher A: here is my theory *becomes famous* Researcher B: theory A is totally utterly incandescently dog-botheringly wrong *demonstrates using facts and whatnot* Researcher C: "some controversy exists over theory A **cite cite** but I shall now treat it as the word of God."
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Yeah, it's very annoying. Usually though, it's because Reviewer 1 is like, "cite my research" and I have to compromise to get published, tbh.
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It's often very disadvantageous for the life of your paper to go to the mattresses. Even with facts.
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Some similarity with the macroeconomic concept of banks that are ‘Too big to fail’. Poor studies, errant conclusions, propped up again and again because without them researchers would be up a creek. Too foundational to work to challenge.
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Isn't that the most poisonous idea, 'too big to fail'. Applies to the literal AND contextual research area. I always think of forensic science during the discussion of this issue, and the evidence base for polygraphs and fingerprints.
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Yeah it’s a real problem and I don’t intend to defend it. Shit ideas never really go away anyway, they just go somewhere else. Freudian psychoanalytic theory, for example. Still journals dedicated to it.
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You are supposed to call it "backlash" and not cite it.
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Most don't even cite it! https://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b2680 … Hopefully we can help highlight critical studies and make it harder for authors to brush aside/ignore:https://twitter.com/sciteai/status/1055927904717160449 …
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"Changing one's mind is for losers." That might be one reason why the Monty Hall problem is so hard.
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