LetMePushTheButton t1_j96azm4 wrote
What’s up with this trend in the neuroscience field? I remember reading about falsified data last year that upended decades of neuroscience research into Alzheimer’s.
Yuskia t1_j96rczg wrote
It's not just the neuroscience field. It's every field. Research is a very feast or famine thing. And the sad part is, research that doesn't reach some groundbreaking conclusion is good, it's essentially the basis for the scientific method. But that doesn't get you funding nor does it keep your job, so there's a perverseness to it where it's incentivised to falsify data to keep your career.
FiveBrassMonkeys t1_j97vnzm wrote
The sad thing about research is:
- Negative findings do not get published. His leads to many labs doing research that they don’t know has already been futile. I can only imagine how many billions of research dollars get wasted.
- Bias. Even the a post doc student with no pharma connections and funding from government has a huge conflict of interest: that conflict being, if you spend a couple years doing research and all your experiments don’t find results then you don’t get a job. Funnily enough, they always find something.
Portalrules123 t1_j9bnboo wrote
Sounds to me like a more socialized and less capitalistic system for the research field wouldn't have nearly this pervasive an incentive.....but of course, we can't because socialism is badddddd.
FiveBrassMonkeys t1_j9pnv72 wrote
Nothing socialist or capitalist about it. Even if it was socialist you would get the same problems.
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