No, they illustrate that what is needed is a proper theory to guide investigations, and that meanwhile some experimentalists mostly behave as if they found a "f

No, they illustrate that what is needed is a proper theory to guide investigations, and that meanwhile some experimentalists mostly behave as if they found a "free paper" button and are abusing the hell out of it. If you can put anything into graphene and get better electrocatalytic properties, then it doesn't make sense to publish any individual result about doping with "x" since that's just a subset of "anything". But if you do get a paper to put on the CV for a few weeks work, why would the fact that you are just doing redundant confirmation stop you?