Science is broken. I've been writing about this since at least 2016 with a post on the 357 Magnum Archives. For a lot of my youth I wanted to be a researcher. And then I spent a summer attached to a research group at one of the national labs. I also got far enough along in my studies to actually decode an article or two in a scientific journal. Underneath all of the scientific gibberish and academic prolixity, it was more gibberish. I decided that isn't what I wanted to do.
Sabine Hossenfelder has a video on the existence of scientific research as a planned economy. It is working about as well as any other planned economy, which is to say, it isn't working.
While I do like the video, I have to admit that it is not her most entertaining video, because it is just her sitting at her desk. The issue is important, however.
This is Sabine Hessenfelder's video why science is broken.
In the literature it’s been called “the natural selection of bad science.” Basically the problem is that bad science is easier than real science. So if no one checks the use of the research, the bad science will take over. And that’s what we’re seeing.
The video is 18 minutes long. If you care about science, it might appeal to you. If you care about how your tax dollars are being spent, it might appeal to you.
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