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Yes and no. What I envision is a more collaborative process where the faulty data (and your calibration concerns) could be available for scrutiny before your work was officially finished.

I feel like if we did it right, it would be possible to define "units of scientific work" to be something other than "finished publications." An incentive structure designed to maximize the new units would place more value on verification, collaboration, and negative results.




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