This Slashdot article (based on an article in the Newyorker) is asking some interesting questions about scientific publications. The readers comments suggest different types of reciprocity …
Jonah Lehrer has an interesting article in the New Yorker reporting that all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings in science have started to look increasingly uncertain as they cannot be replicated …
… According to John Ioannidis, author of Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, the main problem is that too many researchers engage in what he calls ‘significance chasing,’ …
I recommend reading the comments of the slashdot readers…
