Comment by constantcrying

The problem is that the default state to all recently published results should be doubt. But this is never something which the general public is told.

Both psychology and nutrition are some of the most error prone areas of science. Yet results from both of these are again and again publicized as major finding. "Scientists find ..." headlines have conditioned the population into believing uncritically the outcome of scientific studies. Of course scientists are also heavily incentivized to portray their results as definitive and get publicity among the general population for their research. (By the way, this is surely what contributed to the growth of the "anti-science" movement. You can only read so many obviously fake science papers in the news about how "X is curing/causing cancer" until you realize that there is something deeply wrong.)

All the incentives are terrible. And unless there are major changes scientific credibility will fall even lower.

>Science is "self correcting" because if the "effect" you saw isn't real, nobody will be able to build off your work. Alzheimer's Amyloid research has been really unproductive, which is how we knew it probably wasn't the magic bullet even before it had fraud scandals.

After how many billions wasted? By that metric we do not need airplane safety regulations, as after ramming a hundred planes into the ground the margins become bad and safety should improve.

Science is full of fraudsters and they should not be allowed to operate like this.