> The reason academic institutions don't want to talk about it is the same reason that religious institutions don't want to talk about child abuse - it makes a

> The reason academic institutions don't want to talk about it is the same reason that religious institutions don't want to talk about child abuse - it makes a mockery of their whole enterprise. This is why in science, replication of past work is essential. Every new Ph.D. student should replicate a paper's results in their area of interest as a warm-up exercise. In Information Retrieval (the part of Computer Science concerned with search for information - search engines etc.), conferences like ECIR have regular reproduceability tracks, where such works of scrutiny get published, and are highly regarded. There needs to be a cultural change to the effect that genuine errors and fraud can happen, but we can weed it out to an extent by independently repeating past work.