redsamurai
Banned
It's most definitely a buddy systems, but in practice is looks more like the fashion industry. As a matter of fact, research is more like the fashion industry than the fashion industry.
Health care and computing are too.
I personally believe that the more degrees of freedom an industry has, the more fashion-like it becomes. Once we lose our grasp on the handful of metrics we can measure and our brains process, the more we fall back on emotional (and usually irrational ) decision-making tools.
I'll be back later to chat. Gotta put all my data into the cloud, order some emu oil, learn how to do proximal one-third nailing of a tibia and complete a research grant application to study big data.
It's what all the cool kids are doing.
It's funny that when scientists studying pure raw data come to a conclusion that doesn't fit your eye...they're clearly straying from the scientific process, despite the fact you have "zero" standing to judge their work because you're not one of their peers. You make ankle braces, you don't nor ever have studied and researched global climatology. Therefore nothing you have to say is of any consequence whatsoever. In reality I can corner the raccoon in my backyard who raids my trash every night and put the screws to him about the science of global warming. ANd you know, his educated guess would carry as much weight as yours huh?