%0 Journal Article
%T Reflections While Searching for the Boundaries Between Science and its Simulation – the Problem of Trust
%A Matuszewski, Jacek
%J Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History
%V Volume 9 (2016)
%R 10.4467/20844131KS.16.018.5858
%N Volume, 9 Issue 3
%P 379-406
%K academic promotion, intellectual integrity, military discipline, levy en masse, military services, plagiarism scholarly critique, pseudoscience, review, the law of the Nobles Republic
%@ 2084-4115
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kshpp/article/refleksje-przy-poszukiwaniu-granic-miedzy-nauka-a-jej-symulacja-czyli-o-problemie-zaufania
%X The study reflects on the functioning of the Polish peer review system using the habilitation monograph written by Karol Łopatecki as an example. The author reflects on the dangers which may result from a presumption of confidence in the intellectual honesty of the creator of a scientific study. He enumerates numerous types of failures, abundantly present in the dissertation, pondering the causes which led to giving it scientific validation. Its summary attempts to identify the circumstances which adversely affect scholarly critique in Poland.