TY - JOUR TI - Reflections While Searching for the Boundaries Between Science and its Simulation – the Problem of Trust AU - Matuszewski, Jacek TI - Reflections While Searching for the Boundaries Between Science and its Simulation – the Problem of Trust AB - 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. VL - Volume 9 (2016) IS - Volume, 9 Issue 3 PY - 2016 SN - 2084-4115 C1 - 2084-4131 SP - 379 EP - 406 DO - 10.4467/20844131KS.16.018.5858 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kshpp/article/refleksje-przy-poszukiwaniu-granic-miedzy-nauka-a-jej-symulacja-czyli-o-problemie-zaufania KW - academic promotion KW - intellectual integrity KW - military discipline KW - levy en masse KW - military services KW - plagiarism scholarly critique KW - pseudoscience KW - review KW - the law of the Nobles Republic