Comment by tgv
17 hours ago
The root of the problem is referred to implicitly: publish or perish. To get tenure, you need publications, preferably highly cited, and money, which comes from grants that your peers (mostly from other institutions) decide on. So the mutual back scratching begins, and the publication mill keeps churning out papers whose main value is the career of the author and --through citation-- influential peers, truth be damned.
Citations being the only metric is one problem. Maybe an improved rating/ranking system would be helpful.
Ranking 1 to 3 - 1 being the best - 3 the bare minimum for publication.
3. Citations only
2. Citations + full disclosure of data.
1. Citations + full disclosure of data + replicated
The same dynamics from school carry over into adulthood: early on it’s about grades and whether you get into a “good” school; later it becomes the adult version of that treadmill : publish or perish.
something something Goodhart's Law
Something "systems that are attacked by entities that adapt often need to be defended by entities that adapt".