Sabine Hossenfelder looks at the fraud that is driving a retraction crisis in the science. She points a finger at the 'Special Issues' craze that has allowed the literature to become littered with published papers that are fundamentally flawed (deliberately or not). AI is partly to blame but like most critiques she avoids going deeper into a proposed solution. 

In addition she carefully avoids the politically motivated topic of Anthropegenic Climate Change that has for all intent of purpose become the poster child for groupthink, scientism and shoddy science. 

 Publish or Perish and competitive grant money have not helped the process but if science cannot extricate itself from the politics that skews its bias it runs the risk of crashing in on itself. Nobody will benefit from that. The success of Western Civilization is grounded in a solid science. This involves a science that incorporates rationalism and empiricism and places the truth at the apex of all investigation quests. 

An update

Since my book Navigating the Chaos was published in March of last year I have been somewhat lax in my personal writing. While I have answered questions on Quora I  have largerly resisted the urge to write more on a substantive level. 

The decay all around me has moved me in the direction of a negativity that I have found to be stifling of personal aspiration. I need to push on in my marketing of the book but I can't help but ponder the futility of all that there is.

The attack on Israel cut me to the soul and the rapid rise of obvious antisemitism has not helped with this onset of such an existential angst. It truly is frightening. 

However I am not one to marinate in self pity. I need to move on with my writing and this includes a motivated intent to outline, analyze and dissect the decline. This will now serve as the purpose of this blog.

It is my recourse to a continued sanity and I will follow through with it.