I never said it wasn’t a scam.
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The scientific process is not a scam. The problem is that the label « science » is attached to endeavors that don’t follow a scientific process.
I was only kidding about the scam comment.
However you are spot on.
Where does the true (honest) scientific process end and the publishing / reproducability scam begin? I think they are so interlinked now.......
The more I think about it. Ethics, honesty, competenance, and a dose of common sense are baseline foundations the scientific process and data analysis. That used to be assumed, it can't be any longer.