It is necessary to adapt to extant circumstances, and unfortunate that this includes scientific publishing today. We are also limited in our capacity to test every assertion, and therefore dependent on our biases to sort fact from fiction across the information landscape. Selection of sound principles is therefore of fundamental importance to that process, and also to enabling our social interactions to withstand the ongoing democidal polycrisis that is intentionally becoming a global cataclysm seeking to prevent free meritocratic society from outcompeting centralized hierarchical control vile psychopaths have attained.
read scientific papers, with extremely diligent attention to bias (Martin Sweatman has also provided extensive training in this regard), and this is our sole resort potentiating benefiting from the leading edge of research while avoiding being mis, dis, and malinformed intentionally by corrupt influence on scientific publishing, as well as by flaws inherent to that publishing methodology. It is presently officially understood that the majority of research published is unable to be replicated, with >60% of papers somehow failing replication.I was stunned in 2020 when @lighteye convinced me my trust in NEJM, Nature, JAMA, Cell, and other long established and reputable journals was misplaced, and they had lied to me, despite their well earned reputations having been gained at great cost over preceding decades, even a century or more of fervent forthright discussion. I have had to learn to more carefully
Caveat emptor, after all.
Thanks!
@lighteye also helps me in 2021! It’s not the majority here on Hive but as sure so have some freedom loving great accounts!
Steel sharpens steel.
This 💯 indeed!