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Reproducibility crisis in science

mardi 6 juin 2017 à 02:00

Tackling the reproducibility crisis in science.

It is of course an oversimplification to say that the state of science at any particular time gives us "the truth". What science does is provide a systematic method to correct errors over time. As an area becomes heavily studied, for example global heating and (even more so) evolution, the remaining errors get to be fewer and smaller.

I think we need universities to stop judging people by how often they publish in "high-impact" journals.