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Graduate students are already required to take courses and various tests that don't bring funding or prestige. This could simply be an additional requirement, o
by tensor 13y ago
Graduate students are already required to take courses and various tests that don't bring funding or prestige. This could simply be an additional requirement, or replace an existing requirement.
In time, such a program would bring quite a lot of prestige as flaws are discovered and fixed in existing work. It's really the easiest and most immediate way to address this problem since it only needs to involve single institutions (whose faculty presumably care deeply about this issue).
It doesn't seem likely that journals will suddenly start valuing verification work. Similarly, politicians and funding agencies appear uninterested in actual science; they care only about their careers or immediate application to the politically popular cause of the day.
- XorNot 13y agoGraduate students already verify people's work. Because every new graduate project involves building on the work of previous science. Which by definition involves re-verifying the work to show you get the same results. If the results are hard to replicate, or dependent on other causes, then usually that's when a project shifts or when the knowledge pool expands (for example chemistry is fraught with environmental effect dangers - fluorescent lights provide UV to reactions, your glassware has imperfections, the temperature and humidity of labs varies with climate).