Blueprint outlined to add in ‘fail-safes’ for science publishing
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Emma Stoye2018-09-12T15:22:00
Raft of measures suggested by prominent critics of science’s reproducibility problems
Two prominent researchers that have frequently written about science’s reproducibility problem have suggested seven key reforms that they say will improve the reliability of science publications.
Writing in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Arturo Casadevall of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the US and Ferric Fang of the University of Washington say the reliability of the scientific literature is ‘of the utmost importance to society’.