How can we fix the scientific community in America?

The way scientists are limited in the United States is very sad as well is the lack of accountability with their findings if they are incorrect.how could we change this and make the process easier and more streamlined without restrictions ?

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daisymay · 51-55, T Best Comment

[quote]the lack accountability of their findings are incorrect[/quote]

Master5dad

It's called being a dumbass and shotgunning questions cause I'm bored. Thanks for keeping me straight foghorn hope kfc never catches you @daisymay

daisymay · 51-55, T

@Master5dad Cool, thanks for BA!

helenS · 36-40, F

The peer review system is quite reliable. Each paper is checked by experts in the field, prior to publication. It's not easy for crackpots to get a paper accepted.

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SW-User

@helenS Yeah, it's brutal, I don't know if a lot of people know what it takes to be a professor.

helenS · 36-40, F

@SW-User The whole thing starts getting really brutal once you've become a postdoc. Dog eat dog.

SW-User

@helenS My father is professor emeritus of biology and I saw all this growing up, which is why I decided to work in industry instead. You have to really want it.

RandomForest ·

As a scientist, there is severe accountability hurdles that keep the system going. Lack of scientific understand and am insatiable appetite for sensational headlines is the problem.

daisymay · 51-55, T

@RandomForest [quote]there is severe accountability hurdles that keep the system going[/quote]

I remain unconvinced. Do you have any evidence to support this?

RandomForest ·

@daisymay 🤣 only anecdotally when in my early days my papers were tossed back by reviewers.

helenS · 36-40, F

@RandomForest You're telling me! 😁

Ynotisay · M

Lack of accountability? You've heard of 'peer-review,' right? They police their own because they're the only ones who can. Scientists don't care about the outcome. They care about the process.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

Cut their funding. Eisenhower told us this was coming when he was leaving office.

Northwest · M

Why would you say scientists are limited in the USA? In what way?

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