scientific research

TRX
May 6, 2015 at 2:57 AM

Failure of replicability is a painful issue with a lot of what passes for "research" nowadays. That's assuming that a paper's own data even supports the paper's claims.

The "refereed journal" concept was supposed to handle this, and it actually worked for a while. But now that publication is more or less a job requirement for tens of thousands of college employees, the avalanche of new papers seems to have overwhelmed the old system. And so many of those papers are behind paywalls or on private collegiate networks, the perpetrators can get away with bad papers for an entire career if they're lucky.