Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:14:27 -0500 Message-ID: <57154E4F.7D67@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:14:55 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Broken Science- a lot of published research is false. References: <571521FC.6D7A@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 12 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-As1iori5hjl8CGoBoS8WPR1W/s8x9k+f+/MZFlE1UmLCOxuFC25Kmaf4YGejCnhMARfJyFrdnp7ptWE!6chSDhFg7sGHhKxCD2UAXLYPtcLV1peqbVFPLW0hcsmYhVvxTmkqBfEst4ZHStepNiRkhChnZ4Cu!mwLGNWQ2mNc= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2183 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:571398 James McGinn wrote: > > On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 11:05:25 AM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote: > > http://theweek.com/articles/618141/big-science-broken > > Quote: > "Science, at heart an enterprise for mavericks, has become an enterprise for careerists. It's time to flip the career track for science on its head. Instead of waiting until someone's best years are behind her to award her academic freedom and prestige, abolish the PhD and grant fellowships to the best 22-year-olds, giving them the biggest budgets and the most freedoms for the first five or 10 years of their careers. Then, with only few exceptions, shift them away from research to teaching or so > > This is very true. Many of the Phd candidates I've encountered in water science, for example, barely understand the science. They know their models. But they don't know the science. And they are obsesses with getting published to the point of completely ignoring the fact that much of their science doesn't quite add up. it doesn't add up because it doesn't fit, and if it don't fit..you got to aquit.