The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit: Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height."Until a few months ago, we’d never heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a peer-reviewed publication whose aim is to promote “free inquiry on controversial topics.”
Our research typically didn’t fit that description.
We finally learned of the journal’s existence, however, when we tried to publish a commentary about how modern science is being compromised by a de-emphasis on merit.
Apparently, what was once anodyne and unobjectionable is now contentious and outré, even in the hard sciences.
- Merit isn’t much in vogue anywhere these days.
...Our intent was to defend established and effective practices of judging science based on its merit alone...
...Every institutions has been corrupted. - Glenn Reynolds
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