As someone who actually does academic research and has spent countless hours reading the fine details of “prestigious” publications, 90% of the material out there is total garbage, and it is difficult to know if a paper is garbage just by reading the abstract. Peer review doesn’t help either because review boards are lazy and will never double check any of your actual footwork. They will never read your code, rerun the algorithms you claim you used, etc. A simple glitch can change the sign of your answer, but you typically stop looking for glitches in your 10,000 lines of code once the answer “looks right”.
So, if there is any controversy on the issue, remain agnostic. Like a 90⁄10 split in academia is totally reasonable once you factor in the intellectual biases/laziness/incompetence of researchers and publishers. All an article tells you is that somewhere out there, someone with an IQ >= 110 has an opinion they are publishing to further their career. I don’t place very much weight on that.
Don’t become one of these “reserch sez...” people who just regurgitate abstracts. You’ll wind up worried about the dangers of red meat, getting too much sunlight, doing 45 minutes of cardio every day, etc.
As someone who actually does academic research and has spent countless hours reading the fine details of “prestigious” publications, 90% of the material out there is total garbage, and it is difficult to know if a paper is garbage just by reading the abstract. Peer review doesn’t help either because review boards are lazy and will never double check any of your actual footwork. They will never read your code, rerun the algorithms you claim you used, etc. A simple glitch can change the sign of your answer, but you typically stop looking for glitches in your 10,000 lines of code once the answer “looks right”.
So, if there is any controversy on the issue, remain agnostic. Like a 90⁄10 split in academia is totally reasonable once you factor in the intellectual biases/laziness/incompetence of researchers and publishers. All an article tells you is that somewhere out there, someone with an IQ >= 110 has an opinion they are publishing to further their career. I don’t place very much weight on that.
Don’t become one of these “reserch sez...” people who just regurgitate abstracts. You’ll wind up worried about the dangers of red meat, getting too much sunlight, doing 45 minutes of cardio every day, etc.