[pseidemann]

Such "science" should be illegal.

[entropicdrifter]

If propaganda was illegal, who would decide what was propaganda and what was simply argumentation made from positions of relative ignorance?

[pydry]

The courts could easily decide whether a message has been paid for or not.

[stanford_labrat]

the greatest travesty of modern science is that fraud is not illegal.

in every other industry that i can imagine, purposely committing fraud has been made illegal. this is not the case in modern science, and in my opinion the primary driver of things like the replication crisis and the root of all the other problems plaguing academia at the moment.

[ceejayoz]

It's not legal, but intentional misconduct can be tough to prove.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/professor-charged-op...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Poehlman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Reuben

> in every other industry that i can imagine

Our own industry (tech) is rife with unpunished fraud.

[ceejayoz]

What, specifically?

Industry funded research? Results that disagree with the current consensus? Nutrition science entirely?