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Re:Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it's... by SiempreViernes on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:12AM (#40945745)
That's not true, because a very common way of getting a new idea is to start from something existing and then extend it.

Thus a pretty standard task for any PhD student is to reproduce someone's published result as the first step towards testing the new idea. And even if you start by assuming some previous work is correct, frequently you will end up reproducing it in some what because you want to sanity check the extension you built on top of it.

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Re:Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it's... by taylodl on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:25AM (#40945860)
The overwhelming majority of the groups doing those extensions are the same groups who did the original research, and the increments are oftentimes so small that they don't expose the flaws in the underlying body of work.
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