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Professional-Song216 t1_it62c6x wrote

Reply to comment by kmtrp in Homing missile molecule eradicates even advanced cancers in mice by Shelfrock77

That’s fucked, is this with a all scientific branches or just life science?

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kmtrp t1_it6lb3h wrote

It's widespread, but couldn't tell you about other branches. We hired a PhD student to work on a metapaper (a paper about papers) to separate the wheat from the chaff, and she uncovered 11,000 papers that were irreproducable or completely useless. Now think of all the research money and researcher's time that went into those papers. There are other concerns that point to a broken system of "publish, just publish something".

The way we do research is broken. It is disheartening.

Check out Veritasium talking about some of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q

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Professional-Song216 t1_it89ww8 wrote

Yea, I can’t believe this is a widespread issue, this is probably happening because of some other issue within the general system. I mean how low can the world possibly get smh

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