Re:There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
by bumby on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:48PM
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Fair enough, but the incentives don’t align. Novel research attracts funding, so every if replication gets prestige in the future the business side of research will still run counter to it. A researcher would still gain more prestige work novel work that attracts substantial funding.
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Re:There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
by naasking on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:12AM
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Most novel findings don't replicate, so a researcher at Yale can gain plenty of prestige by debunking the sensationalized findings from Harvard, for instance.
Re:There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
by bumby on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:49AM
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>Most novel findings don't replicate
This is very context dependent so such a broad generalization probably goes too far. It seems like the “soft” sciences have a much bigger replication crises.
But that point aside, your Yale vs. Harvard example doesn’t fix the funding issue I alluded to.