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Are there prizes and/or grants for people who sniff out science fraud? It’s an area that seems under-funded at the very least. Pretty high-leverage place to throw some money. Maybe too controversial for conventional donors?
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Yes; OTOH I think there’s a problem of knowledgeable outsiders not being incentivized to call bullshit. The emerging science fraud callout movement (so far only about ~6 people! with zero! funding) is having *some* positive effect.
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(1) this should definitely exist (2) who is the most famous debunker of wrong science? (3) make this an annual award and name it after (2). Perhaps "Lysenko Prize" if no one sufficiently famous comes to mind
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For philosophy to be generally adopted, would need someone with a ton of stature, eg Kahneman. And academia biased toward collegiality, so bit of adversarial touch not bad imho. Super curious how many PhDs suspect fraud in significant research in their fields. Dozens? Hundreds?
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