The underlying incentives for modern scientists are really skewed away from truth seeking. The modern publish or perish paradigm embodied by things like RAE and REF encourage flashiness and being “world-leading”. I’m guessing the rigour metric (being the least quantifiable?) is the least optimised for.
It seems he is trying to culture shift the wrong people. It is not scientists that provide the publish or perish incentives it is the schools and the bureaucrats.
It would be interesting to figure out what kind of bureaucratic incentive system would encourage truth seeking for academics.
The underlying incentives for modern scientists are really skewed away from truth seeking. The modern publish or perish paradigm embodied by things like RAE and REF encourage flashiness and being “world-leading”. I’m guessing the rigour metric (being the least quantifiable?) is the least optimised for.
It seems he is trying to culture shift the wrong people. It is not scientists that provide the publish or perish incentives it is the schools and the bureaucrats.
It would be interesting to figure out what kind of bureaucratic incentive system would encourage truth seeking for academics.