How failure to falsify in high-volume science contributes to the replication crisis

The number of scientific papers published every year continues to increase, but scientific knowledge is not progressing at the same rate. Here we argue that a greater emphasis on falsification – the direct testing of strong hypotheses – would lead to faster progress by allowing well-specified hypoth...

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Main Authors: Sarah M Rajtmajer, Timothy M Errington, Frank G Hillary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2022-08-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/78830