Behavior leading to reproducibility issues is also unethical. P hacking etc is just as bad as simply making up experimental data from scratch. It’s at a minimum wasting everyone’s time that’s reading that junk, but a waste of any funding sources for that research.
The only reasonable option I see is a culture of reproducing results from independent data and blacklisting people when a high percentage of their papers turn out to be bogus. Because what’s happening today in many fields is simply wasting everyone’s time and money.
The only reasonable option I see is a culture of reproducing results from independent data and blacklisting people when a high percentage of their papers turn out to be bogus. Because what’s happening today in many fields is simply wasting everyone’s time and money.