“Scientists should embrace their humanity rather than pretending that they are a bunch of automatons who instantly reach perfectly objective conclusions.”
We should move past ‘trust the science’ and embrace ‘trust the scientific process’ — including the complexities of how scientific consensus is reached — argues Science editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/it-matters-who-does-science
@mimsical The many scientists I've met, read of, whose work I've read etc. generally talk about "trust the scientific process" (or similar), have sophisticated, nuanced views etc.
However, too often scientific reporting (especially in the era of "internet clickbait")... not so much.
Ironic, given this article is on a website that just published a dubious article about fake scientific papers.
ping @ct_bergstrom
Attached: 1 image This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake. https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common Below, the first two paragraphs of the story. Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that? h/t @[email protected]
Christopher Mims
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