'90% of work is too vague to even be wrong': researchers slam rigor turning into entertainment
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-03
Doubling down on his claim that 90% of work is too vague to be wrong, 9% is clearly wrong and only 1% has a shot at being right, RexDouglass argues research has zero functioning error-correction mechanisms: not peer review, not sleuthing, not computational or literal replication, not AI-verification SaaS. Nobody takes work literally; people just mine new meme formats as content. A culture deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty is turning rigor into entertainment — 'which is not science.'
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