A lot of academia’s problems are just Capitalism’s perversion on display: incentivizing the wrong thing in every case. But it’s also not in such bad shape as the anti-science grifters (e.g. Hossenfelder) like to pretend
I sometimes see videos of Hossenfelder on my feed and have watched a couple. Would you mind adding some context? What are “anti-science grifters”? Sry if i’m a bit out of the loop here.
Angela Collier on YT has some good videos about these. I think those videos talks about conspiracy and science crackpots.
Okay, i looked into those and i know the type. If i wanted to name a person that embodies this i’d go to people like Graham Hancock.
How dies it apply to Hossenfelder?
Adding to what the others have said: I think Hossenfelder is also an example of chasing YouTube popularity. And apparently many people are really into this anti-science, right-wing stuff. It probably also aligns somehow with her own values, but I’m pretty confident that this is beneficial to her streaming business.
Science ranking is one more bullshit to deal nowadays. Like if the discovery of something new in a fiels ia going to care about how many medals you have hanging from your suit.
This is literally the bullshit that science magazines and publication entities love the most.
I had colleagues going to someones courses or presentation just because that persom had high publications score, no care about if it’s even interesting what that person did.
Are we trying to choke science with publications? Any dumbass can publish tons of stuff like a news reporter, does it matter? Apparently yes. Should it matter? No.
I have a high school friend who owns a paper mill. He was a rich kid who never did the work, and always took credit for others work.
He has an h-index of 90 and 200,000 citations. He is not a professor.
A paper mill will produce a lot of papers.
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This is definitely written by an ai, and it’s pure laziness when people don’t fix the styling, which makes it so obvious.
Okay. Take your own advice and stop posting. Focus on what’s important and shut the fuck up.
Directed at the lib who in the picture of course. No one on this site should ever stop posting.
Directed at the lib who in the picture of course. No one on this site should ever stop posting.
No one on this site should ever stop posting.
The reason for this is that posting on Hexbear is the second most important thing in all of existence
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