crazygg's definitions

bullshitomics

The "art" of writing "successful" academic papers and grants. Strategies include, but are not limited to overpromising and underdelivering, overselling, cherry picking results that fit your theory, focusing on a neat story and massaging the data until they confirm it, making vague and untestable predictions, creating new names for old ideas and claiming novelty, etc.

- How did you like that Nature paper?
- I hated it - it was pure bullshitomics.

by crazygg March 14, 2019