Academia's mad cabal incentive structure can't collapse soon enough. A never-ending dog-and-pony parade while undergrads are fleeced, capped and kicked without a single notable competence after four years paying through the nosehttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101497087743660032 …
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New technologies, cures for diseases, better policy, & understanding of the world in general come about through academic research. Academic research is facilitated by sharing of trustworthy, high signal to noise ratio knowledge among academics.
I am not questioning the value of scientific research. I am questioning the value of a system that limits access to publicly-funded research to a tiny few, incentivizes positive results + overstated conclusions, & appears to be producing less notable work at an increasing cost
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I question the value of a great many terrible journals which exist solely to publish mediocre work, further fields that lack even superficial rigor, & generate citations to boost careers that may or may not even be pointed in the general direction of real questions
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There are indeed some very mediocre things out there. There are also many very good things published and lots of good people who are doing interesting work that makes the world better.
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So there's a both a tremendous amount and not enough being done to address publication bias & that's a whole separate thread, but I do want to point out that there's a difference between research and the publication thereof. That's what I was getting at
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Funny, because when you asserted your far superior understanding of “the value of academic publishing,” I was actually expecting a defense of that and not of literally all research.
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