The system does not do what we think/say it does. It provides a loose safety net. And, in fact, public discussion and retraction must not be taken as a failure but as an invitation for a more lively engagement. Now, the problem are publishers, of course.

Maybe we need to accept that procedimental legitimation is fallible. Democracy is not just voting periodically, and peer accountability must not be reduced to peer review.

Es que hay que desconfiar por defecto de al que le parece que su parcelita es especial, ya lo siento.

IMHO, if science is performed with public funds then science publishing must be based on publicly owned channels (with decentralized editorial control).

I understand, I also think it’s worth it to reflect on failure in a positive way 😀

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

Ea, o románticas o cínicas, no nos vale na más ya.

CONCLUSIONS:

To promote the best science being done, we need to look at the incentives of science publishing and funding. Long-term funding produces better science. Short-term and topical agendas encourages irreproducibility.

Funding model organisms generates science we can build on! 🪰🪱🦠🐠🐁🐸

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So what can we do in response? A key problem:

The transformation from long- to short-term funding leads researchers to flit from topic to topic, and move across fields chasing 'sexy' stories.

Science is done better when you leave someone to geek out on a single topic for their whole career.

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Como si para que la sociedad apoye el trabajo científico sus trabajadores tuvieran que cuidarse de entrar en política y acomodarse a sus condiciones de mierda, y comer pequeñas porciones de prestigio social.

Pero sugerir con cierta ligereza que la ciencia podría ser “apolítica” (1) es consolidar una noción exclusivista de “lo político” y (2) no hace ningún favor a la posición ABSOLUTAMENTE PRECARIA de los trabajadores de la ciencia.

Es de admirar la capacidad de la extrema derecha de envenenar la convivencia e impedir disfrutar de ningún evento ya sea Eurocopa de fútbol, juegos olímpicos o Eurovisión.