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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by troupe on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:36PM (#36881600)
> However, what is the societal problem here?

I would say yes. I think we need to place a lot more value in publishing research that isn't surprising. Research that simply replicates (or fails to replicate) other research should be just as valuable to one's career as finding something unexpected.

I scientist that has replicated a bunch of studies and identified several that they couldn't replicate is doing something very very valuable for the human race and we (universities, grants, etc.) need to recognize that.

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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by Ericson2314 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:42PM (#36881725)
A fundamental problem with research academia is that we scaled it up massively without introducing more division of labor.
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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by troupe on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:43PM (#36881742)
Interesting. I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying though. Can you expand on that?
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Re:‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for contr... by Ericson2314 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @05:58PM (#36885715)
It's all throwing PhDs at novel research. Boring reproducing known things is just one type of support work that is neglected. There is a vast "supply chain" of work that allows novel research to be done, and we've neglected it.
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