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I wonder if there's a way to document such replaceability failures as an erratum to the original manuscript. I feel like this would help in at least two major w
by bumby 3y ago
I wonder if there's a way to document such replaceability failures as an erratum to the original manuscript. I feel like this would help in at least two major ways:
1) It provides a reproducibility filter. If a method isn't shown to be reproducible, publically documenting that adds to the body of knowledge, and this would help drive an incentive towards reproducing work rather than just searching for novelty. It would document work that would otherwise be lost because there's no incentive to showcase it. When the lack of reproducible results isn't public, it's now more likely that others may waste considerable effort in the same vein.
3) It may enlist the original authors to help understand why the work didn't reproduce well. Maybe the secondary effort lacked some crucial step or understanding. The people best positioned to remedy this are the original authors, and this secondary publication incentivizes them to dialogue with those who couldn't reproduce the outcome. It doesn't mean they have to engage, but it at least gives them some reason to involve themselves in the process.
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