It is saddening to see so much pessimism in the thread. Tight regulations on reproducibility are the first thing academia needs. Academia is a rat race with so

It is saddening to see so much pessimism in the thread. Tight regulations on reproducibility are the first thing academia needs. Academia is a rat race with so much dishonesty and optimizing for measure (citation count etc..) these days. I have seen too many of professors producing low quality papers for the sake of producing papers - which creates a lot of noise, and a cargo cult PhD culture. Without reproducibility how can you even trust the results? While academic code doesn't adhere to code quality standards of software development, I don't think many software engineers involve in ridiculing the author if they produce the code, leave alone other academics. Btw, I submitted a link (a very comprehensive article by a CS academic) but it was lost in the HN noise. Maybe someone with higher karma points repost that? I found that article through nofreeview-noreview manifesto website and that's very well written, it covers a number of problems like this.. (http://a3nm.net/work/research/wrong http://a3nm.net/work/research/wrong).. PS I am no way affiliated to the author. Just mentioning because that article deserves to be at HN front page.