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Originally Posted by renormalised
I beg to differ here. There's a hell of a lot of science that's done behind great veils of secrecy, cloak and dagger routines and is far from open.
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Again unsupported, vague claim. For this to be the case, the conspiracy has to be world-wide, covering a huge number of scientists. I don't see how this can work in practice.
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Originally Posted by renormalised
If it meant destroying another person's career because what they were proposing was going to disadvantage them in some way, then they would do it.
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Vague accusation. And how do they destroy someone's career? Please provide an example. In my experience, it is other scientists who expose fraud within science.
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Originally Posted by renormalised
Science is full of politics and in many cases those within it act as if they're "high priests" of some religion.
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Agree, any human enterprise is full of politics, and certainly networking among your peers is important in terms of being able to collaborate on projects, get early access to data etc. But how do you get to be a high priest with so much control? With the plethora of open journals, preprint databases etc, you can't restrict publication. With open access to vast amounts of data, you couldn't even shut someone out that way these days.
Cheers,
Paul