I am not sure if research quality takes this into account, but I gotta add that the insane degree of conflicts of interest in the US massively taints their pool of research. And in the US it takes zero effort to avoid noting conflicts of interest so even research that looks clean requires deeper digging. For example, some researchers used to get paid a ton of money by big tobacco to create studies where tobacco appears healthy. But as long as that money wasn’t super recent or explicitly for the study they don’t need to disclose it.
yeah, so much for the whole China has a dramatic lead in frivolous patents and garbage research papers narrative
I am not sure if research quality takes this into account, but I gotta add that the insane degree of conflicts of interest in the US massively taints their pool of research. And in the US it takes zero effort to avoid noting conflicts of interest so even research that looks clean requires deeper digging. For example, some researchers used to get paid a ton of money by big tobacco to create studies where tobacco appears healthy. But as long as that money wasn’t super recent or explicitly for the study they don’t need to disclose it.
for sure
Haha yeah