The Research Review

There was no single moment when I decided to start a blog critically engaging with science. No sudden realization, no rupture, no clear-cut “this can’t go on.” Looking back, it was a gradual process—a series of small irritations that, taken individually, seemed insignificant, but over time began to form a more coherent pattern. At the beginning, there was no fully articulated thought—only a vague sense that something didn’t quite fit. That feeling was difficult to grasp. It surfaced in different situations: in seminars, in encounters with research methods, in conversations with other researchers. What stood out was that I wasn’t alone in this. Others seemed to notice something similar—usually hinted at, rarely developed. Brief moments where someone would say, “This feels a bit off, doesn’t it?”—and then things would move on. What exactly felt “off” was hard to pin down. But over time, two underlying patterns began to emerge. The first concerned how research was expected to be condu...