The case for open science, from a Research Revival Fund collaborator

The Analogue Group wishes to congratulate our collaborator Seconds for their recent publication in Reason. They are working with the Research Revival Fund to translate Soviet-era academic literature into English, bringing a corpus of pre-1980s scientific work finally into the English-language scientific record. Their ChinaRxiv.org project has done the same for Chinese research preprints, at scale.

In their piece for Reason, they use the Sylvain Lesné Alzheimer's fraud case to illustrate how institutions meant to safeguard scientific integrity — peer review, journal editorial boards, university compliance — are structurally incapable of catching fraud, because the incentives reward publication over truth. They propose open infrastructure as a counterweight: making the full body of human research accessible, translatable, and replicable by independent researchers. We support their work in advocating for open, distributed science.

Read the full article: How a Scientific Cartel Protects Fraudsters and Rakes in Billions of Taxpayer Dollars.