> I can't blame researchers for tailoring their research to help their own careers but this should help prevent that.
It regularly astonishes me how easily people are willing to accept scientific malpractice with such excuses.
While I agree that mechanisms like registered reports are the way to fix these things at the core, I do think that these mentalities ("it's just the system, I can't do anything but cheat with my scientific publications, my career!") are a big part of the problem.
It regularly astonishes me how easily people are willing to accept scientific malpractice with such excuses.
While I agree that mechanisms like registered reports are the way to fix these things at the core, I do think that these mentalities ("it's just the system, I can't do anything but cheat with my scientific publications, my career!") are a big part of the problem.
Good read on the issue: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-inc...