alt Hacker NewsResearcher/academics pay/promotoins should be contingent on reviewing,challenging and reproducing papers rather than publishing quantity, because publishing cartels and AI has already degraded most research fields.
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ktallett • today at 9:26 AM
Reproducibility in many scientific as areas has been made almost impossible. We have got to the stage where IP matters more than scientific rigour so methodology is purposely left out.
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humanfromearth9 • today at 9:56 AM
No. You can't spend all your money on rehashing past results. Some, OK, all, not. In many fields, the money is needed for discovery.
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Should be, but you've got to tell the funders that.