I think you're conflating correctness and degrees of validity. Yes, I expect journals to have to have correct results - not in the sense that the generalizatio

I think you're conflating correctness and degrees of validity. Yes, I expect journals to have to have correct results - not in the sense that the generalizations from their findings are universally valid, but in that the statements of fact and of logical implications are valid. To be more explicit: * "Events X, Y, Z occurred" <- expect this kind of sentences to be correct * "We did X, Y, Z" <- expect this kind of sentences to be correct * "A and A->B, so B" <- expect this kind of sentences to be correct * "We therefore conclude that X" <- Don't expect X to necessarily be correct.