Getting tired of this topic. Most scientists do their best. Considering that most make 50K or less and toil for years on individual projects hoping for a single

Getting tired of this topic. Most scientists do their best. Considering that most make 50K or less and toil for years on individual projects hoping for a single publication I think the public should realize they are getting a pretty good deal for their relatively insignificant investment. Contrast this with how else money is spent in the world, $300B on some military plane that never makes it out of the hangar, or the top 0.1% who regularly steal your money in one form or another, I'd say we are spending too much fighting the (minor) battle, but losing the war. Also, look at the figures. Pretty ironic that the headlines speak to crisis, but figure 2 shows that for most fields, scientists think the majority of published research is reproducible. So yeah. If you have ever done research, and I have ~20 years and am now a professor at a top US university, you will see that there is good faith effort by the vast majority of scientists. In fact, most scientists I've come across are pathologically concerned by being right. Remember, the people who do science are those who cared to get those pesky arbitrary things called "good grades" in their classes. They care, ALOT.