One concerning factor is that irreproducible research is naturally selected for by journals which look for interesting results, which are pretty much all journals.
I think one factor that drives this is the relentless pressure to publish in order to advance professional careers (and, to be honest, grant money). If you start imposing stringent requirements of truthfulness, then nobody is going to get tenure.
One concerning factor is that irreproducible research is naturally selected for by journals which look for interesting results, which are pretty much all journals.
Yep. That's one item on a long list of problems I'm going to raise with peer review and academic publishing in future posts/videos.
I think one factor that drives this is the relentless pressure to publish in order to advance professional careers (and, to be honest, grant money). If you start imposing stringent requirements of truthfulness, then nobody is going to get tenure.