One further: "Science doesn’t advance because journals always make the right decisions, but because genuinely important work can be replicated and spurious advances can’t." Here is where the publication pressure to scoop "new stuff" and attract paid readers etc. does most damage. Replication, especially <i>failures to replicate</i>, gets little or no journal column inches, and hence little funding. As a result, bogus positives ride the waves for years, before a reality check finally kicks in.
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