Odd how it doesn't address the replicability crisis in the first paragraph. If half of the "knowledge" produced is fiction, the knowledge mill needs to end...
And doesn't even question the root cause of this decline in "knowledge".
This collapse of knowledge is akin to when engineering leadership pushes for faster and faster product releases, with less and less time for thinking about code, and then blames the team because the product shipped in a broken state.
You can pretty tie the replicability crisis to the funding centered pushed for greater and greater amounts of peer review. Economic pressure to prove knowledge's "worth" has lead to increasingly faulty knowledge.
I would expect this worldview from the WSJ, but it's a bit surprising coming form Aeon... oh they have book to sell about it, what an interesting coincidence. Further highlighting that our late capitalist world, knowledge that cannot be commodified should be eliminated.
readthenotes1|2 years ago
IKantRead|2 years ago
This collapse of knowledge is akin to when engineering leadership pushes for faster and faster product releases, with less and less time for thinking about code, and then blames the team because the product shipped in a broken state.
You can pretty tie the replicability crisis to the funding centered pushed for greater and greater amounts of peer review. Economic pressure to prove knowledge's "worth" has lead to increasingly faulty knowledge.
I would expect this worldview from the WSJ, but it's a bit surprising coming form Aeon... oh they have book to sell about it, what an interesting coincidence. Further highlighting that our late capitalist world, knowledge that cannot be commodified should be eliminated.
fifticon|2 years ago