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> It's what they do. Indeed, legally and ethically Science is free to do what they want and should be held so by all external parties. However, we, its consum
by tathougies 7y ago
> It's what they do.
Indeed, legally and ethically Science is free to do what they want and should be held so by all external parties.
However, we, its consumers, are equally free to no longer pay attention to it, since its quality as a scientific journal is somewhat suspect. Anyone who truly believes in science (with a small s), ought to appropriately lower the amount of prestige with which they view science after such accusations.
- Misdicorl 7y agoWell, its more like new and flashy results are likely because new techniques were developed or a technique was applied in a novel way. Science/Nature/etc are publishing the first results with these new techniques so of course theyre going to be a bit buggy. Subsequent refinements and discovery of systematics and how to account for them improve the research, and often change the results, but those results don't make it to Science/Nature/etc because they don't belong there (usually). So, really you should be taking the mindset that articles in these journals should be taken with a grain of salt. Whether that should have an impact on their prestige? I suppose thats a personal decision.