Seriously. I've often thought that we need a journal for failed studies and experiments, or at least have a journal that only publishes articles that have been confirmed by a third party. Make it worthwhile to publish failed results or results confirmed by another researcher. I've heard too many stories of grad students repeating tests ad nauseam until they get a result their PA likes. Publish or perish needs to be gotten rid of.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My fuckbrain PI forced me to publish a paper that was very clearly overinterpreted horseshit. It went against better data in our field, but fuck it, she was in it for the novelty. That shit went into PNAS, and I have a Science paper that's also obvious bullshit. Aside from those, I cannot tell you how many times I've used a paper's mathematical model and gotten results conflicting with those that were published. Mathematical model.