Bureaucrats have not only taken over much of the science world, but even the parts of the bureaucracy designed to hunt out corruption in science are incapacitated with bureaucracy-at-its-worst too. This is second order corruption — even the checks and balances on corruption are corrupted.
As James
Delingpole points out: Science is rife with corruption,
incompetence, dishonesty and fabrication–and now, thanks to a frank resignation
letter by the US’s top scientific misconduct official we have a better idea
why.
Government science desperately
needs auditing– or the free market solution, competition
One in 50 scientists admitted to have fabricated,
falsified or modified data or results at least once. It’s not just about fraud, it’s
about bias, and statistical sloppiness. Up to 30% admitted other
questionable research practices. When asked about their colleagues, 14% said
other scientists falsified results, and 70% used other questionable research
practices (Fanelli 2009). In the modern electronic science world, not only are
many results not replicated, but the raw data itself is not even available
for checking most of the time. Research shows that scientists who withhold data
are more likely to have published errors (see below). Half of the papers in
high-end journals contained some statistical error (Wicherts 2011).....To Read More.....
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