Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature.

Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/UnQ19

  • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    This is what the publishers (the peer reviewed journals) used to do, right? I thought they got other research teams to comment on papers and even try duplicating some kinds of experiments before publication. Maybe that’s just within certain disciplines? Maybe I’m nuts.

    • glomag@kbin.social
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      2 months ago

      They ASK overworked people to do this for FREE. Not the duplicating part though, that would be very expensive in most cases and require its own funding.