Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The Problem of Bad Research!" video.

  1. Military historian here, Academics are people like any other and their opinions are as much garbage as mine. You should always examine incentives, partisanship, and objectives in anything you read regardless how many degrees the guy writing it has.
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  2.  @musicalarchitecture7875  the system are the people.
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  3.  @sirrathersplendid4825  how can you talk so much but say so little?
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  4. Depends who you're selling clicks to
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  5. Shut up
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  6. Shut up
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  7. Babbling on about ethics is the sign you have no idea what you're talking about
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  8. Did they appreciate the scale of it? Recall, this purge of academia started half a decade ago and now has reached the very top with the removal of the President of Harvard
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  9. Did they appreciate the scale of it? Recall, this purge of academia started half a decade ago and now has reached the very top with the removal of the President of Harvard
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  10. Because it's all bullshit regardless how often it's replicated
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  11. Because it's all bullshit regardless how often it's replicated
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  12. How do you prepose doing it? There's no gatekeeper in all this. Actually there is. There is a shitload of hazing in grad school.
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  13. Much of this isn't actual fraud, but a lot of it is.
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  14. Much of this isn't actual fraud, but a lot of it is.
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  15. Shut up
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  16. shut up
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  17. Shut up. Get drafted
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  18. Shut up
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  19. Found the crypto scammer
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  20. It depends. How it's organized is an editor sorts through pay-to-play submissions and sends what he likes to academics. These unpaid academics will review the paper for the clout and a back and forth of emails comes forth until something is published. Of course, anyone can publish an "academic journal" and some of them are scams, printing everything received for a fee. Others are highly prestigious, namely all the science magazines you have ever heard of, and so only a fraction of submissions are even considered so academics turn to attaching fictitious prestigious names just to get the editor's attention. Most are in the middle where they "low-impact journals" a tiny audience and an oddly specific topic and maybe a few professors actually spare the time to review the submission, but this introduces another perverse incentive where many only read the abstract and reject/accept it based on whether it sounds good just to get on the list of reviewers. There is no man behind the curtain, no professional organization that knows what's what, just a lot of nerds doing crazy stuff with lab equipment and data.
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