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Completely agreed. While I strongly believe in citizen science and people's right (and perhaps obligation) to critique established science, there is just so much poor analyses done by people to criticize some scientific findings they do not approve, motivated emotionally or otherwise. This phenomenon does not bring us closer to finding scientific facts or resolving the replication crisis. People should learn some basic analytic tools first.

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Scientific facts do not exist, scientific observations do.

We should really just do (and certainly publish) less research.

I can see why this has been downvoted, but I didn’t mean to sound like a luddite. I really just think there is a lot of low quality research, especially in the social sciences, done primarily to keep an publishing schedule up for pressured academics. We’d often be better to spend more time thinking about and planning fewer better studies.

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