[MaxBarraclough]

I've read of a few cases like this on Hacker News. There's often that assumption, sometimes unstated: if a junior scientist discovers clear evidence of academic misconduct by a senior scientist, it would be career suicide for the junior scientist to make their discovery public.

The replication crisis is largely particular to psychology, but I wonder about the scope of the don't rock the boat issue.

[mike_hearn]

It's not particular to psychology, the modern discussion of it just happened to start there. It affects all fields and is more like a validity crisis than a replication crisis.

https://blog.plan99.net/replication-studies-cant-fix-science...

[renewiltord]

He’s not saying it’s Psychology the field. He’s saying replication crisis may be because junior scientist (most often involved in replication) is afraid of retribution: it’s psychological reason for fraud persistence.

I think perhaps blackball is guaranteed. No one likes a snitch. “We’re all just here to do work and get paid. He’s just doing what they make us do”. Scientist is just job. Most people are just “I put thing in tube. Make money by telling government about tube thing. No need to be religious about Science”.