It also forces the next generation of scientists to repeat the same mistakes instead of learning from the past. Of course it would be easier still to learn fro

It also forces the next generation of scientists to repeat the same mistakes instead of learning from the past. Of course it would be easier still to learn from mistakes if academic research allowed for more honesty about negative or undecipherable results, but that's another issue. It's still orders of magnitude easier to do some in-depth analysis on a paper in your chosen field to see if it looks like a load of BS than to get funding and conduct a study yourself to see if a hypothesis pans out with some kind of meaningful result.