Modern scientists are doing too much trusting and not enough verifying—to the detriment of the whole of science, and of humanity.
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The idea that there are a lot of uncorrected flaws in published studies may seem hard to square with the fact that almost all of them will have been through peer-review. This sort of scrutiny by disinterested experts—acting out of a sense of professional obligation, rather than for pay—is often said to make the scientific literature particularly reliable. In practice it is poor at detecting many types of error.
Both are from The Economist
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