These new scientific fraud cases worry me: Now also in material science

Correction to what I say at 01:56 -- He had 35 papers retracted, not 65, sorry about that. I mixed up the numbers. (Bad enough as it is!)

I’ve talked a lot about scientific fraud in the past. Now, investigations have found even more widespread examples of falsified research. Not just in psychology and medicine, but also in material science. Let’s take a look.

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[jeffreyfrey]

Peer review doesn't work when your peers spend no time reviewing or replicating your results because they have their own papers to write. May as well rename it "reputational sign-off."

[mtheory]

Doing away with the "publish or perish" mindset, encouraging publication of null results, registering studies, requiring that the data used for a study be available in a frozen archive, doing away with p < 0.05 and moving towards Bayesianism, and mandating all publicly funded studies be open access will greatly improve the current scientific crisis.

[drbachimanchi]

As an endocrinologist I know that many of the short term studies on human metabolism are bollocks....
especially longevity.

[janzill]

My grad school professor (leading roboticist/top 5 control theory expert in nation) said in class that the US “professorship” system is a joke. Wannabe professors had to publish many articles to get a teaching position, and he knew case where several candidates whose research/articles did not get past editorial review decided to form their own technical magazine, just so they could list this on their CV. This was over 30 years ago. Every system, will be gamed by the unethical. And there is no lack of unethical people in academia.

[Sanquinity]

Imo if scientists are caught deliberately falsifying results they should lose their PhD. Give them some real consequences for setting humanity back just to try to selfishly get ahead in the short term.

[clivegreedus]

At 3.51 she criticises Ivermectin as causing deaths during the Covid pandemic whilst showing an inset picture of her video on Hydroxychloroquine. Confusing!

[mikesmith-fwnc]

"Publish or perish". This is what happens when pressure is put on health professionals and scientists to publish. They only goal is to enhance their CV, not investigate properly. This has been going on for decades.

[Too-Odd]

To be clear, you stated Ivermectin but showed a graphic of Hydroxychloroquine. Was it one, the other, or both? In the case of Ivermectin, studies that show efficacy against "The Virus" are eliminate from meta analysis studies for one reason or another, so it is difficult to find any scientific conclusions. The conflicts of interest for both clinical and meta studies are often enormous in a trillion dollar industry where one university or governmental study opens the door for funding of others. It is one big game.

[joju]

I left academia three years ago and I do not regret it. The system is broken. Peer review is mostly not double blind and you are either part of a citation circle or your work gets really, really "reviewed".
Then here in Germany there is the stupid idea, that a good scientist will be a good manager and thus should have absolute power over their lab. That way, nothing improves because why should these young people have it better then me back in the days?

[JimmyMatis-hy]

it's been building-up for a long time.
1995-2000 I was in graduate school for biochemical engineering & the department head was an MIT graduate who "jokingly" used to say "the key to good re($)earch is to do the experiment until you get the result you(r funding source) want".

not only did no one disagree or correct this (for the students) on the side, he was made head of the department

[SuperChaoticus]

When is scientific fraud going to be prosecuted as a crime? This is insane.

[javaman]

I think having $4000 and saving it will improve my mental health a lot more than spending it on a self help course.

[PatGilliland]

Here's another problem:
Dr. Hossenfelder posts a video on scientific fraud, Youtube leads off with an ad for a self-administered chiropractic device.

[davelowe]

The biggest problem I've found is the shear quantity of papers, most of which are inconsequential. When your field has 100k papers published each year the signal to noise ratio makes meaningful research impossible. There's a massive risk of duplication and for each subject to be so narrow and siloed that nobody can see the bigger picture. I think this is contributing to basically terrible decision making on a political and societal scale. It engenders groupthink, essentially through ignorance.

[KLRJUNE]

There's quite a few articles about this and one takeaway is that scientists often let their politics get in the way of their objectivity.

[tair]

The world is a better place because of you, Sabine!😘😘😘

[poksnee]

As a scientist, this saddens me. This is an assault on the advancement of humanity.

[jloiben]

I am glad that these fraud detectors are starting to get some real funding

[EthelJung-jw]

im still just baffled that whats supposed to be the brightest minds of humanity even came up with such an incredibly stupid system.

[erikhartman]

It is becoming clear that this is not the making of individuals, a few bad apples - it’s the consequence of a broken system. Prosecuting individuals won’t help. You have to start from the bottom and change the underlying structure of the academic environment.