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A review by mveldeivendran1
Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
4.0
Nobel Laureate Economist Daniel Kahneman, in his work targeted to public audience 'Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)' talks about the certainty of Priming effects through citing various psychological studies and thereby claimed certain stimulus can be produced without conscious guidance or intention and that which can be patterned. It was one of the widely read popular bestsellers in the genre but things of uncertainty were likely after a few years when the studies he cited were failed to replicate or published with inadequate data. He even acknowledged that the fact that he was wrong about his certainty. What happened here?
"The books we’ve just discussed were by professors at Stanford, Yale and Berkeley, respectively. If even top-ranking scientists don’t mind exaggerating the evidence, why should anyone else?"
Following Kahneman, we have similar claimed by NASA, pop science books like Why We Sleep, studies of austerity, mediterranean diets, publication biases and issues of hacking p-values, cherry picking, salami slicing, self citations, self plagiarism, creating ghost citations and review from ghost peers, coercive citations from accepting journals.
Most of the people who's already in the field would know most of the replication crises discussed in the book but I guess mostly their guides would have calmed them down that it's okay to not being able to replicate scientific study due human error among other factors. It's a conditioning that's been practiced contradictory of the objectives set by the founding figures of scientific publishing community like Boyle.
Afterall the practitioners of science in the end has the susceptibility of becoming more of an organized cult working for their incentives of various kinds from academic survival, personal fame and status to achieve the bureaucratic standards forgetting the basic tenets of what scientific research is all about.
The last book I read was a work of a Wittgenstein student showcasing how Social Science was massacred by Social Scientists (Sociologists, Social Psychologists, Economists, Political Scientists to name a few..) where as this one does the same in the Natural Sciences.
But rather not going philosophical, it's limited to how science is practiced today than what science actually is. Maybe there are no better methods to understanding the world but as Winch said it's better to stay vigil and question 'the extra scientific pretensions' of scientific communities which creates its own norms and beliefs in its culture of practicing Science.
Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science (2020) ~ Stuart Ritchie
"The books we’ve just discussed were by professors at Stanford, Yale and Berkeley, respectively. If even top-ranking scientists don’t mind exaggerating the evidence, why should anyone else?"
Following Kahneman, we have similar claimed by NASA, pop science books like Why We Sleep, studies of austerity, mediterranean diets, publication biases and issues of hacking p-values, cherry picking, salami slicing, self citations, self plagiarism, creating ghost citations and review from ghost peers, coercive citations from accepting journals.
Most of the people who's already in the field would know most of the replication crises discussed in the book but I guess mostly their guides would have calmed them down that it's okay to not being able to replicate scientific study due human error among other factors. It's a conditioning that's been practiced contradictory of the objectives set by the founding figures of scientific publishing community like Boyle.
Afterall the practitioners of science in the end has the susceptibility of becoming more of an organized cult working for their incentives of various kinds from academic survival, personal fame and status to achieve the bureaucratic standards forgetting the basic tenets of what scientific research is all about.
The last book I read was a work of a Wittgenstein student showcasing how Social Science was massacred by Social Scientists (Sociologists, Social Psychologists, Economists, Political Scientists to name a few..) where as this one does the same in the Natural Sciences.
But rather not going philosophical, it's limited to how science is practiced today than what science actually is. Maybe there are no better methods to understanding the world but as Winch said it's better to stay vigil and question 'the extra scientific pretensions' of scientific communities which creates its own norms and beliefs in its culture of practicing Science.
Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science (2020) ~ Stuart Ritchie