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Yes, earnestly contributing your effort towards a controversial or unsettled issue is a good way to publish and make progress in your career. And yes, some fie
by swatcoder 4y ago
Yes, earnestly contributing your effort towards a controversial or unsettled issue is a good way to publish and make progress in your career.
And yes, some fields aren’t able to perform the kind of reliable science of physics or chemistry, and so end up with a lot of papers that just collectively oscillate around topics.
But I have a hard time seeing how that’s what the above commenter was suggesting.
- namaria 4y agoNull hypothesis confirmation is not a good source of papers. Framing of problem is part of the craft. It's not a secret that there is a big reproducibility problem in science today. Why? Because problems and results are hand crafted to go from "let's disprove this... oh look I did it".