For me, I felt like publishing in scientific journals required me to be dishonest.
...what?
Quoting a little more context:
I encounter this idea all the time when I’m talking to academics about academia. I give ’em my whole spiel about publishing, being honest, blah blah blah, and they go, “Well, we don’t live in a utopia. You have to make tradeoffs in life.” Yes, of course! But the whole point of tradeoffs is to trade something you value less for something you value more. The thing you care about the most—that’s the thing you don’t compromise on!
For me, I felt like publishing in scientific journals required me to be dishonest. So I stopped publishing in scientific journals.
The “whole spiel” has a link to another essay by the same author. At the very end, it gives an example of what they mean by “being honest”—what science can look like when one isn’t worried about peer review.
Quoting a little more context:
The “whole spiel” has a link to another essay by the same author. At the very end, it gives an example of what they mean by “being honest”—what science can look like when one isn’t worried about peer review.