>Don't forget that the "fruit" for scientists is fame, not the truth.
This is a pretty shocking thing to say. It's not true whatsoever for the field of physics. Is there a particular field or a particular experience you're reacting to? I think I'm overreacting to how general your statement is.
Feynmann's classic "Cargo Cult Science" for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. And for those of us who think it should be read and re-read at least annually and the time has come:
It's a 5 minute read. Arguably the 5 most intellectually productive minutes we can spend. (Well at least for me, anyway).
Now that ESP, paranormal, telekinesis research is thoroughly dead, (exposed by magicians like James Randi?), psychology still remains mired in it all. To the credit of a minority in that field they're having a go at getting it back to science and I wish them all the luck in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
My understanding is that for vast amounts of "What food is healthy, what kills you." Research, epidemiological studies is all we have. They're obviously limited, easy to get wrong, easy to fool yourself (and you're the easiest person to fool!) The supply of identical twins, who are willing to commit to life long diet differences with rigor and make all the same choices outside of the study is, well, kinda low.
The statistics being used for these things is still under active development and being improved. Can it ever be done properly? Well I guess so. I think we're pretty clear on the smoking, cancer, heart disease, stroke link nowadays, right? And those studies have to have been similar.
It's interesting that scientists have to raise funding, publish or perish and so on to even have a career at all making them part P.T. Barnum. Fenymann, for all he didn't need to do that because of the different era, reflected "glory" from Los Alamos etc. really was capable of putting P.T. Barnum to shame while at the same time being the most devout adherent to and proselytiser of scientific principle & purity. So good and so lucky he could keep his hands clean?
Is there no academic misconduct in physics nowadays? None? I'd believe you if you told me so & why.
its not just fame, University 'Research' Centers are completely overrun with politics. I noticed after mapping diabetes, obesity, and excessive alcohol consumption that high levels of obesity almost perfectly overlapped with diabetes, except in areas with excessive alcohol consumption. I brought it up during an ideation session, but it was immediately dismissed as 'SES (socioeconomic status) must account for it, don't look into it further. when I lied and said these are higher levels obesity which is correlating with soda consumption, they wanted to write a paper / grant.
its leading to junk science, and large swaths of people are losing faith in what we are labeling as science.
This is a pretty shocking thing to say. It's not true whatsoever for the field of physics. Is there a particular field or a particular experience you're reacting to? I think I'm overreacting to how general your statement is.