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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Yes and? Is the premise that capital only chooses bad things to research?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Capital has certain interests. If your research doesn't produce the results that capital is looking for, you're unlikely to get more funding. As such, it leaves a bias on what we have research for, which can already skew our perception of reality, and sometimes researchers will even fake their results or select certain data to reach a conclusion that's in the interest of the capital.

There are mechanisms in place to try to prevent that, namely peer reviews and reproduction of previous studies, so we'll hopefully get to the truth eventually, but the bias still has a big impact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Plus publish or perish is real thing

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