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Except we have no way to know that for 1 such retracted paper, there aren't 100 papers as bad that are not.
by rossant 3y ago
Except we have no way to know that for 1 such retracted paper, there aren't 100 papers as bad that are not.
- defrost 3y agoJournals aren't intended to be pefect and only filled with papers that are never disputed or exposed as wrong. There are ways of estimating percentages of bad papers, just as there are ways of estimating subsets of other populations. This is science working as intended - the good reproducable work advances on the strength of the good papers and the bad papers fall away from lack of follow on.