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Please note that this initiative does not support pillorying authors. Pointing out errors increases quality of research, and as a scientist your most important

by azan_ 2y ago

Please note that this initiative does not support pillorying authors. Pointing out errors increases quality of research, and as a scientist your most important guiding principle should be attempting to find the truth. The only people who do not benefit from finding errors in their work are the ones which have wrong incentives or are aware of their mistakes/malicious errors, yet for some reason do not want to acknowledge/fix them.

glitchc 2y ago
Incentivizing looking for errors will not improve the quality of science. Rather individuals will use this power to take down articles they disagree with. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- azan_ 2y ago
  But you can look for errors in articles and contact editors even right now. It appears you either do not understand what this initiative is or how scientific process work.
  - glitchc 2y ago
    I'm guessing you don't have a clue how research works.