Math and CS are better off than experimental sciences. Theoretical paper often contain errors, but these don't usually invalidate the conclusions. In experimen

Math and CS are better off than experimental sciences. Theoretical paper often contain errors, but these don't usually invalidate the conclusions. In experimental sciences, hard sciences like physics do have a lower error rate than sciences that rely heavily on statistics. But that's changing. See the second page of this article: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/papers/2005NEWModernScience.pdf http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/papers/2005NEWMode... The author argues that "Nature has gotten more tight-fisted with modern physicists" and that physics is now more dependent on statistics.