<story><title>Researchers taking on fraudulent science</title><url>https://www.analystnews.org/posts/plagiarism-paper-mills-and-profit-these-scientists-are-fighting-the-epidemic-of-fraudulent-science-research</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derbOac</author><text>I love these people&amp;#x27;s work.&lt;p&gt;At the same time I don&amp;#x27;t think any of this really addresses the root causes of the problems, which are career, university administrative, and field (i.e., recognition and attention) incentives. The whole paradigm we use, and the way we treat scientists and fund research, is broken. It feels a little bit like bailing water out of your boat with teacup on one side while ignoring the gaping hole letting rushing water in on the other side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmd63</author><text>The solution is unfortunately for everyone, more transparency in research. When you conduct an experiment, why on earth is the report composed months, sometimes years later, instead of being streamed live and recorded?&lt;p&gt;Just the same as in business. We need a new more prestigious stock exchange for companies that are willing to open their books up to continual audit.&lt;p&gt;The government can step in to aid businesses and researchers that act openly, in the form of grants to researchers or tax breaks for members of the more restrictive stock exchange, and shift the cost of policing destructive fraud to rewards for constructive conduct.</text></comment>
<story><title>Researchers taking on fraudulent science</title><url>https://www.analystnews.org/posts/plagiarism-paper-mills-and-profit-these-scientists-are-fighting-the-epidemic-of-fraudulent-science-research</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derbOac</author><text>I love these people&amp;#x27;s work.&lt;p&gt;At the same time I don&amp;#x27;t think any of this really addresses the root causes of the problems, which are career, university administrative, and field (i.e., recognition and attention) incentives. The whole paradigm we use, and the way we treat scientists and fund research, is broken. It feels a little bit like bailing water out of your boat with teacup on one side while ignoring the gaping hole letting rushing water in on the other side.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>armchairhacker</author><text>But how do we “solve” those incentives? There will always be winners and losers, and since successful fraud is by definition indistinguishable from genuine success, there will always be people trying to game the system.&lt;p&gt;The only effective solution I see is making fraud harder to hide. (There’s also making the penalty for fraud higher and trying to instill integrity, but the problem is some people will still take the risk.)</text></comment>