>One thing that might help is forbidding abstracts and conclusion sections in papers published in journals, which might cut down on some of the misunderstanding

>One thing that might help is forbidding abstracts and conclusion sections in papers published in journals, which might cut down on some of the misunderstandings and make it harder to pass off a paper as support for a claim. I wouldn't go this far, bstracts are needed to determine if the paper is of interest to what you're researching. Perhaps a more modest refinement that could work would be to forbid conclusions in abstracts.