It just occurred to me there is a relationship between children’s science fairs and the crisis of novel positive results publishing in science. It always bothe

It just occurred to me there is a relationship between children’s science fairs and the crisis of novel positive results publishing in science. It always bothered me that science fair projects were “fake science”... nothing new was observed so it wasn’t science at all. It turns out I was very wrong, and journals that only publish novel positive results and institutions that only reward them are committing a grave scientific error. If journals start publishing confirmations of previously reported experiments, then students who confirm long reported results will be doing very real science. Journals could even publish brief (two sentence) articles from students on a back page. I think it would do a lot of good.