Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses peer review and scientific thinking

Oh, I'm very happy with the scientific method. Bring it all and let rational thought sort it out.

 

No, the one's who rely on self appointed experts are the ones who don't like the scientific method.

 

It's all there.

Of course, journals don't have the space to publish it all, and most media are motivated by clicks, not science.

 

Correct. That's why "climate science" is so politicized. It's easy to bury anyone who disagrees.

 

So, you want only YOUR view to be available?

 

No, never much cared if people disagreed with me. To me, that's how one learns.

 

Correction - he shows how SOME papers are reviewed - the 10,000 retraction number certainly suggests they all DO adhere to his explanation.

 

The problem though is that many are not rational.

 

There's now a book about how broken is peer review.

• “Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.”

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I live and breathe science. If science were a breakfast cereal, I'd eat it every morning. And at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I watched in alarm as public trust in science disintegrated.

But I don't know how to change people's minds. I don't know how to convince someone to trust science again. So as I started writing my book, I flipped the question around: is there anything we can do to make the institution of science more worthy of trust?

The short answer is yes. The long answer takes an entire book. In the book, I explore several different sources of mistrust—the disincentives scientists face when they try to communicate with the public, the lack of long-term careers, the complicitness of scientists when their work is politicized, and much more—and offer proactive steps we can take to address these issues to rebuild trust. . . .

 

Only trouble is that you have not demonstrated you know what is actually meant by the “scientific method” otherwise you would be acknowledging the expertise of bodies like the IPCC

 

I REALLY don’t think that book is going to be what you think it is lols!!

 

10,000 out of how many published each year? I mean if there is only 100,000 papers published each year then that is problematic but we are talking a world wide phenomena here over hundreds of disciplines

https://publishingstate.com/how-man...million,papers published yearly is staggering.

Soooo less than 0.5%. Which includes papers from Asian “paper mills”

 

So you agree that many of those disagreeing with the science are actually being funded by fossil fuel companies?

 

On the contrary, it's exactly what I think it is.

 

The IPCC is a political body.

 

Your prejudice is showing.

 

Yes Energy and Environment, which published mostly papers from the likes of Willie Soon and “Lord” Monckton was a complete scandal. It published so called papers trying to debunk climate change. Fortunately the science community caught the double dealing and would not cite the papers

 

Proof? I mean it is beholden to world governments plural so……. But I will give you this the Arab nations have used political power to try and water down the findings. I can give links to that - can you give examples of governments trying to use the findings to somehow do what? I mean dealing with climate change costs money - a point you are constantly making so why would governments commit suicide if they didn’t have to??

 

Not prejudice when you know the facts

 

Oh! Lols! Can’t wait until you read it then and may I suggest you go back and reread the excerpt you posted and THIS time read it all. Lols!

 

Energy and Environment is still publishing.

 

Then it's prejudice indeed.

 

The point is that I have read it all and I'm fine with it.

 

Baloney. The IPCC is a political body, not a scientific one.

You need to learn the difference.

 

Nope. I agree that the IPCC is currently the most dangerous political organization in the world.