Blame bad incentives for bad science
How a ‘publish or perish’ attitude may be derailing the scientific enterprise

These days, a scientist has to publish a steady stream of research articles to be “successful.” But two new studies argue that that kind of pressure promotes sloppy science at the expense of careful work.
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