{"id":23596,"date":"2024-04-17T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=23596"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:55:08","slug":"at-this-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/04\/at-this-point\/","title":{"rendered":"At this point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesclaims.substack.com\/p\/how-should-we-fund-scientific-error\">James claims<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At this point, I feel bleak at the prospect of typing them out again. The problems with overpublication, \u2018publish or perish\u2019 culture, abusive lab environments, analytical flexibility, p-hacking, clinical trial registration games, grant front-running, intellectual capture, nonsense journals, fake journals, peer review manipulation, moral entrepreneurship, etc. precede the present discussions of paper mills and active falsification\/fabrication cases&#8230;<br \/>\nI have tried at least four times in my memory to write out and codify how I would start an institute to combat these problems. Specifically, a formal organization under a 501c3 structure designed to address the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Germany we have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqwig.de\/\">IQWIQ<\/a>, an independent Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care who examines the benefits and harms of medical interventions for patients. But they don&#8217;t care about all the medical nonsense studies around. And without PubPeer we wouldn&#8217;t even know the nonsense&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James claims At this point, I feel bleak at the prospect of typing them out again. The problems with overpublication, \u2018publish or perish\u2019 culture, abusive lab environments, analytical flexibility, p-hacking, clinical trial registration games, grant front-running, intellectual capture, nonsense journals, fake journals, peer review manipulation, moral entrepreneurship, etc. precede the present discussions of paper mills &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/04\/at-this-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At this point<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23597,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions\/23597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}