Re:Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
by dragonwriter on Thursday February 23, 2017 @01:05PM
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> Sorry, let me be clear: If an interesting result is published, people will go to the trouble.
That's only true for a definition of "interesting" that is more like the sense most people assign to "astounding" or "groundbreaking", and even then it's not guaranteed, just somewhat probable. If it's both groundbreaking and controversial (in the sense of "immediately implausible to lots of people in the domain, but still managing to draw enough attention that it can't be casually ignored as crackpot"), like, say, cold fusion, sure, there will be people rushing to either duplicate or refute the results. But that's a rather far out extreme circumstance.
That's only true for a definition of "interesting" that is more like the sense most people assign to "astounding" or "groundbreaking", and even then it's not guaranteed, just somewhat probable. If it's both groundbreaking and controversial (in the sense of "immediately implausible to lots of people in the domain, but still managing to draw enough attention that it can't be casually ignored as crackpot"), like, say, cold fusion, sure, there will be people rushing to either duplicate or refute the results. But that's a rather far out extreme circumstance.