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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by __turbobrew__ on Friday September 27, 2024 @03:45PM (#41674803)
That doesn’t fix the incentives, people will just commit fraud when replicating results so they can perform more original research.
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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by jimbokun on Friday September 27, 2024 @03:52PM (#41674874)
Don't require the replication to be successful. Failure to replicate a result is just as valuable as successfully replicating a result.
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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by __turbobrew__ on Friday September 27, 2024 @07:45PM (#41676636)
It is a lot easier to just falsely prove the experiment since the data is already there and the publisher of the paper is not going to push back if you confirm it.

Why go through all the work of actually proving/disproving the experiment when you can just change tweak the numbers of the original experiment, say you actually reproduced the experiment, and then move on?

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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by KajMagnus on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:18AM (#41678752)
> say you actually reproduced the experiment

And get a nice $100k too for close to zero effort!

(Having in mind: "plus another $100,000 which you could use to publish a replication")

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