Based on my personal contacts in scientific academia, the same process is happening there. It just hit the humanities first. Most of the data is faked using statistics, because the people who fake most of their data can publish more articles per year. More published articles leads to more funding from grants, continuing the cycle with the next generation who learn from these “masters” of fake science.
Based on my personal contacts in scientific academia, the same process is happening there. It just hit the humanities first. Most of the data is faked using statistics, because the people who fake most of their data can publish more articles per year. More published articles leads to more funding from grants, continuing the cycle with the next generation who learn from these “masters” of fake science.
There's an interesting paper written by Abraham Flexner in 1939, "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge". Very pertaining to your essay here.