严谨的科学无论结果如何都有价值

Scientists should be celebrated for more than just flashy findings, argues a philosopher Byron Hyde A successful scientific career is built on its outcomes. Funders give grants to projects promising important findings; journals prefer positive results to null ones; and hiring committees look at citation counts. By contrast, diligent researchers who dedicate their careers to replication attempts, mostly produce statistically insignificant results, and publish infrequently will likely struggle to survive in academia. This results-driven incentive structure has well-documented pathologies: publication bias, p-hacking, and, at worst, scientific misconduct. In the past decade or so, movements such as open science and responsible research assessment have been rapidly reforming the academe. …