Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Should Scientific Fraudsters Go To Jail?" video.

  1. Historian here: I personally outed on academic paper as a fraud, but the journal in question straight up ignored me.
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  2. A lot of them are straight up lying to avoid suspicion. Even if they aren't fraudsters, they want to be above suspicion
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  3. Proving academic fraud is difficult, though. Often what they're lying about are questions that science itself hasn't answered yet.
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  4.  @DJVARAO  Not always. Max Plank didn't live long enough to see most of his work lead to real world inventions.
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  5. Proving the fraud would be very difficult
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  6. Well, there is the corporate world, but they also have fraudsters targeting Wall Street and specific classes of consumers. Government programs tend to have expensive programs that move at a snail's pace because the fraudsters will find excuses to cause delays because they don't want their programs to ever end. Just a different coat of paint on the same old junk.
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  7. Not really. There's all sorts of research papers that are published but are neither used nor read because their purpose was to get some chump a job.
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  8. That appears to be happening as we speak with record high enrollment at community colleges and trade schools and very little donations entering ivy league schools. This partially due to the state of the economy at the moment, but scandals appear to also be a factor.
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  9. There can be harmful frauds in other fields. Historians I see are actively encouraging prejudices.
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  10. Who?
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  11. With many it would simply be impossible because not even science knows the answer to the questions the fraudsters ask.
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  12. Because institutions aren't an omnipotent being, but a group of people. Many are naive, others committed lesser sins that do not amount to fraud, others are more concerned with politics than results (most major fraudsters were DEI hires), and many are also fraudsters and don't report crimes except when they have a personal vendetta.
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  13. Not always. Some of the peer reviewers out the fraud, and we never hear of it because it's never published. Some peer reviewers are just lazy, while others are successfully fooled by the fraudster.
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