Bold assumptions, careful verification, any conclusion can withstand validation

"Bold assumptions, careful verification", any conclusion can withstand verification. This is the basic principle that science should follow, but now reality is not like this. Due to the conceit of past successes, today's scientists are seriously "proving" inadequate, a bad thing for the scientific community and for all of humanity.

At the moment, new papers and new achievements are emerging in academia, but a significant portion of them comes from shoddy experimentation and flimsy analysis. According to estimates, half of the results of published biotechnology research are not reproduced experimentally. Researchers at the Amegen biotechnology company found that only 6 of the 53 key research findings on cancer could be replicated successfully. Earlier, the Bayer team also validated the experiments in 67 influential papers and found that only 1/4 of the results were successful.

The reason for this is that, first of all, because of the intensification of academic competition, the validation or reappearance of the predecessor's research has no substantive help for a researcher's promotion, and only those that attract eyeballs and even sensational research will be used by well-known journals, so some researchers, for their own future, Even at the expense of fabricating research data. At the same time, there are fewer papers proving that a hypothesis is not tenable. The proportion of papers that took the "negative conclusion" as the subject of all published papers fell from 30% in 1990 to 14% today.

For science, however, "knowing what is wrong" and "knowing what is right" are equally important not to pick mistakes, meaning that researchers cannot avoid repeating them and waste a lot of time and effort. Therefore, it is urgent to solve the problem of the scientific community now.