The author doesn't claim science is fundamentally broken, and i believe his suggestion is a valid one. article . I don't know about other fields, but certainly

The author doesn't claim science is fundamentally broken, and i believe his suggestion is a valid one. article . I don't know about other fields, but certainly in my field, neuroscience, there is a lot of work that is being repeated, sometimes unnecessarily, and a big hunt for sensational titles that will get to the top journals. I understand that there's competition among labs, but sometimes this leads to similar studies being conducted independently, instead of combining forces for a single more in-depth study. That leads to a situation where there are no broad-scale projects (of the level of the human genome project or LHC) being conducted by academics (but private institutions do conduct them). His proposal about a central registration mechanism is not perhaps a panacea, but it's not a bad idea. This is a real problem that has been getting a lot of attention lately: http://www.asm.org/index.php/news-room/release032712b.html http://www.asm.org/index.php/news-room/release032712b.html