“I have seen the future of science. It is ruled by bitter competition instead of collaboration, pageantry instead of exploration. Bright minds beginning careers in science will be taught to debase their training for drudgerous pursuit of meaningless metrics. Those willing to toil over genuine questions will necessarily lose out to those that can furnish cheap answers. . . .”

Reese Richardson reports on a recent study he did with Spencer Hong, Jennifer Byrne, and Luís Nunes Amaral, entitled “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly.” That’s a title that doesn’t mess around! Richardson … Continue reading → …