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Ideally, their profile(1) should allow them to quickly admit they were wrong on such a simple issue. Academia doesn't have a culture of admitting mistakes. Ret
by microtonal 3y ago
Ideally, their profile(1) should allow them to quickly admit they were wrong on such a simple issue.
Academia doesn't have a culture of admitting mistakes. Retracting a paper is typically seen as something shameful rather than progress (by scrutinizing results).
Combined with pressure to publish and sometimes limited engineering skills it leads to a volatile mix. There are a lot of published results that are not reproducible when you'd try (not saying anything new here, see replication crisis).
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