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Every scientist I know bursts with enthusiasm and excitement when there is even a hint that a well known and important result is wrong. It would literally be a
by sgt101 8y ago
Every scientist I know bursts with enthusiasm and excitement when there is even a hint that a well known and important result is wrong. It would literally be a bonanza for them, 99.9% of the time the excitement is misplaced, but scientists live for the 0.1% I would say that finding out that this paper is worth nothing becomes more expensive and more valuable with every citation - every time people cite work they are looking at it.
- nyc111 8y ago> every time people cite work they are looking at it. Not in physics. Most physicists cite without reading original sources. This is a real problem. The citations standards in physics is really low. There was a research about this but I cannot find it now. It was about the corruption in the title of one of Einstein's most cited papers. Like generations of photocopying corrupts the original, physicists copied the citation from other citations without bothering to check the original and the title became something else. It was funny.