ENST: Big Science Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness
It’s time for a scientific revolution:
an ethical revolution. Scientists
need to clean up their act.
How the “Scientific Community”
Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness
by David Coppedge
Leading spokespersons for science are complaining about the decline of public trust in their craft. They don’t need anyone to explain why this is happening. Their own journals contain the evidence. It’s time for a scientific revolution: an ethical revolution. Scientists need to clean up their act. Listen to their own confessions.
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Peer Review: The Collapse Collapses
One of the strongest props for scientism has been peer review. This practice is meant to promote objectivity and accuracy in scientific publishing and weed out fraud and pseudoscience. The alleged lack of peer review has been used to bash design advocates (here). Inside the sausage factory of peer review, though, the atmosphere stinks, as many scientists know. Complaints against the practice have been increasing in intensity in the last two decades. Denyse O’Leary reported last year that it may be beyond reform.
To add insult to injury, Alexander Goldberg and six colleagues found that “peer reviews of peer reviews” are similarly flawed. Their randomized controlled test of studies that rank the effectiveness of peer reviews, published in PLOS ONE, found stink all the way up….
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Comments
Mr. Coppedge,
For some time, I thought you took a dislike to me for reasons I do not know. Mayhaps this comment will give you a reason.
“Scientists have undermined their own credibility of late, but whenever integrity is nurtured and takes root in science, it will produce the fruit of trustworthiness.”
You know better than that! People with a fundamentally-flawed materialistic worldview are unable to have such high values. Did you forget what the Bible teaches about the heart of sinful man? Such values only come from Christ through a spirit that has been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Foxes guarding the henhouse can only succeed for a little while, then will revert to their original natures.
When I first read the material at ENST, I was very disappointed. But not enough to stop using CEH material to feature in some of my posts, nor to stop using CEH articles to post outright at The Question Evolution Project (and others).
Bob, I thought I responded to your false impression that I disliked you once before. But if you are choosing to be disappointed with CEH, what more can I say? You don’t have to use anything here that disappoints you.