The reproducibility crisis is a huge issue - there's even a whole movement now called "registered reports" where journals accept studies based on methodology before results are known, which helps prevent p-hacking and publication bias that leads to all those unreproducable findings.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the problem is that proper science is incredibly hard to do, and incredibly time intensive and thus expensive.

And since only a single metric (amount of published content) is really rewarded, anything else (including the fail-safes necessary for proper science) falls by the wayside.