While I would say that the drop in rigour is worse in Medicine than Physics, it is clearly still present even there. The way funding works, in particular, mean

While I would say that the drop in rigour is worse in Medicine than Physics, it is clearly still present even there. The way funding works, in particular, means people publish stuff-that-will-get-references with a similar attitude to web start-ups iterating their code, (by which I mean too damn fast and not listening to the peer reviews.) I'd love to see this change, but I don't know how central agencies can easily/affordably work out which research(ers) to fund and which to cut. As others have said, by definition we don't know what work was useful/valid/critical until many years later.