This seems really obvious. People demand citations for bold claims, precisely because those claims are hard to believe. The problem is that some fields don’t d

This seems really obvious. People demand citations for bold claims, precisely because those claims are hard to believe. The problem is that some fields don’t do replication studies. In such fields these highly cited papers with dubious findings are never debunked, because you know economists to pick on one specific group, don’t do replication studies.