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Lurlex t1_j0d5ld8 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A deluge of fake articles threatens research on human genes -- Review: Protection of the human gene research literature from contract cheating organizations known as research paper mills by spontaneous_igloo

This is a pretty recent development. Not trusting science is much older than this specific thing.

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thekevlarboxers t1_j0dcq1n wrote

Not just this exact event, but dishonest research has been around probably a long a modern science has. Sure there are ignorant people who don't trust anything, but there are also those of us who have published articles who become increasingly more skeptical of everything whenever we see these bad faith studies pop up.

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[deleted] t1_j0dd8wm wrote

You're going to justify your distrust of science regardless.

Even if you have absolutely no idea how the peer review process even works.

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SyntheticSweetener t1_j0diehw wrote

Respectfully, if you've published papers you should understand how the peer-review process works. The fact that there are dishonest interlocutors in any enterprise should not be a surprise to anyone. Science, as a methodological approach to understanding our natural world, is resilient to misinformation and disinformation in a way few other processes are. The fact that people publish bad research which is rejected by the peer-review process is not an excuse to distrust science on political, or any other, motives.

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