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Re:More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could no... by watwut on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:58AM (#29507879)
> all related institutions should be interested in replicating breakthrough studies

Well, no. Grants don't pay for replication. Replication studies are less likely to get published or get citations. In other words, if you want to do replication, you wont be able to find money for it. If you find money on it, there will be punishment in terms of lesser career progress.

The system does not value replication.

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Re:More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could no... by y4mi on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:06AM (#29508262)
They're saying that the institutions should care about it, not that they do.
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Re:More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could no... by kergonath on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:35AM (#29508402)
They should in an ideal world, and if the economic system (and society at large) was optimising for scientific relevance and validity. It does not, therefore they don’t care.

Well, most of us (scientists in general) do care, but we have opposite incentives.

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Re:More than half of high-impact cancer lab studies could no... by netizen-936824 on Friday December 10, 2021 @07:35AM (#29509130)
Maybe we, as scientists, should work to change that
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