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Heterodox STEM is a collection of posts by heterodox thinkers in STEM fields.
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Stealing Credit: Part IV (opens the original)
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This is Part IV of the four-part essay, following Part I, Part II, and Part III. Intellectual property theft and credit misassignment is a potential issue. Therefore, some methods for dealing with these problems are introduced and considered. Potential Palliative and Prophylactic MeasuresCredit misassignment is basically a type of intellectual property theft. IP piracy is potentially worse than any other kind of la
Stealing Credit: Part III (opens the original)
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This is Part III of the four-part essays, following Part I and Part II.A continuation of the catalogue of problematic episodes involving the theft or misattribution of credit for intellectual property contributions is presented. These represent just the tip of the iceberg, but they are still instructive. The improper and inaccurate assignment of credit can hurt the careers of individuals in research and development. This can also lead to immense amounts of waste and ineff
Jason Arday and the Corruption of Science (opens the original)
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The Diversity Hypothesis – A literature Review (opens the original)
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Last week, Jordan Beck, Sam Wilson and I had a paper published in Theory and Society entitled “The diversity hypothesis: A rapid scoping review of diversity and scientific output and impact in the natural and social sciences.” The goal of the paper was to examine the published scientific literature to test what we call the “Diversity Hypothesis.” The hypothesis is stated in different ways but is generally of the form that “diversity” improves science. We operationa
AI will not make mathematicians obsolete (opens the original)
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On September 8, 2026, OpenAI announced that one of its internal, unreleased models had solved the Navier–Stokes problem — the question, open for close to a century, of whether the standard equations of fluid flow (the mathematical model underlying weather forecasting and the theory of turbulence) can spontaneously break down. It was only the second of the seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems ever resolved, after Grigori Perelman’s proof of the Poincaré conjecture, and the first of those magnific
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