More Money, Less Results

All throughout history there have been discoveries that are believed, at the time, to have changed our perspective of science. Then, once a new discovery comes, the past subject is disregarded and we all fall victim to the fact that we do not know the hard questions until they are discovered. We view scientists making these discoveries as some of the smartest people in the world and that makes us trust them, but do they even trust their own work at times? When it comes to these high stature scientists, people will blindly take their word as that is how we have been brought up and expected to trust these people. While reading Science Isn’t Broken, this exact belief is struck at the core with the proof that many scientists are biased to find the result they desire.

Growing up in this generation of so many possible ways of getting your news, you never fully know what is real and with minimal fact checking. Whether people read their news online, or actually watch the news, or even get their news from social media there is no way that they know for certain that it is fully factual. Many studies in today's culture are just put out so people can get their point across and as this has happened over the years, reliability and replication has become less likely. Fixing the data and only showing the points that benefit your stance is a concept called “p-hacking” which gets the reliability of the study, also known as p, below a 0.05 acceptable rate. It is obviously known that humans are selfish and will want to be proven right as much as possible and when it comes to showing results that aid you, without showing the full picture, that can be very misleading to the common person.

Science is an ever changing concept and if experiments can not be replicated and ideas can not be expanded upon, we would never have the advances we have today. There have been so many iterations of the atom throughout time since its discovery, and each new evidence collected has changed the fabric of the building blocks of what we are made of. Without that discovery, we never find all the components that an atom is made up of and we just leave it as a small particle with nothing else to it.

While reading Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck, there are claims that these discoveries being made today are thought of as nowhere near significant as the discoveries found throughout history. But science can not be judged as a single concept that keeps progressing and just recently it has slowed down. Science has always been built on top of other discoveries and with new work on computers and other technological fields, science is seeing a bright tunnel into a new field of unexplainable possibilities. All of the main concepts of science have presumably been discovered and now science is a lot harder to find the super detailed concepts. This is why science costs so much more now, you have to pay to get the credit for some of the hardest concepts possible. 

The thought that science has slowed down is a flawed one with still discoveries happening today and as technology continues to get better, you can only imagine the bright future and discoveries that are still to come.

Zachary Martis