That requires massive amounts of energy and effort though. What you're talking about is entropy mitigation and in any system, working against entropy is energy intensive, so as long as we have a scarcity economy, we should think carefully about what and where we stop this "corruption" as you call it, because it could take up all our resources wastefully if we pick an energy hungry system to keep it from equilibrium.

Meta studies exist today as a means to mitigate the issue. Typically what gets into a meta study and is verified, then it gets further studied and researches build on those findings, but if it doesn't make into the study or serious faults are pointed out, then it is either ignored or someone tries to falsify/verify the claims of the original study.

This issue is being addressed; it's not a growing, awkward problem like climate change or overconsumption.

There is also an issue with resources. Just how much resources are we to waste just to verify the verification of a verification, etc. ? Some research is much more expensive than others, so we can't just have the same blanket standard for all.

It is a problem, but it is not like modern science is anywhere close to fraud; we just have an unprecedented wealth of new reports and too few people with not enough resources to verify each.

This kind of light pollution will annihilate the remaining moth and other nocturnal insect population the relies on the moon and other faint lights from the nightsky to navigate.

Also, a far more effective method would be to just flood devices with ads as it's already being done. Looking forward to seeing Starbucks everywhere because they are literally forcing it into my brain through some network.

I remember watching an interview with a virologist and he said that they often go to wild forests, jungles and other uninhabited areas where they are most likely to find new viral mutations. They collect, catalog and study these viruses, so if they spill over to human populations the search for a vaccine/cure would be fast.

IIRC Corona viruses were cataloged decades ago, before COVID, they just had to change some things for higher efficacy and the mRNA technology just made vaccines cheaper to manufacture and we were able to dispense a lot very quickly.

I think the author would have had a more interesting discussion/discourse if the inclusion of sociology were to have happened. Sociology is a field of study that fundamentally points out flaws and curiosities in our society, which very often find the Emperor being naked. Thus the right wing propaganda machines vehemently demonize the field from gender study "nonsense" to "useless hippy courses" at universities, even though the one and only sin of theirs is to point out the holes in ideologies that seek to normalize our state of inequality.