The usual cause of this fraud is pride and greed on behalf of the researchers
Not to forget the good old “publish or perish”, as mostly positive findings get published/accepted by journals and it’s harder to keep your job (i.e. get funding) if you don’t publish any papers
This is the real issue - the incentive structure is completely broken when your career depends on pumping out positive results instead of acurate science, and journals won’t publish null findings even when they’re methodologically sound.
As more and more research comes out as fraud, this plays directly into the hands of the anti-intellectuals that call it all a waste anyway.
The usual cause of this fraud is pride and greed on behalf of the researchers, tainting results and damaging who knows how much future research.
The capitalist world considers pride and greed as virtues, capitalism is incompatible with scientific integrity
But nearly every one of you will make excuses as to why we don’t change.
Not to forget the good old “publish or perish”, as mostly positive findings get published/accepted by journals and it’s harder to keep your job (i.e. get funding) if you don’t publish any papers
This is the real issue - the incentive structure is completely broken when your career depends on pumping out positive results instead of acurate science, and journals won’t publish null findings even when they’re methodologically sound.
Capitalism is eroding our trust in science and each other.