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
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
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.
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.