The Sovereign of Science

The earliest lesson I remember learning about science as a child, was that “if it’s not repeatable, it’s not science.” Fast forward many years, I find myself as a PhD student completely baffled as how there appears to be no real incentive for scientists to do their job well Instead, scientists are subject to a “publish or perish” system which compels scientists to purse publications at any cost. Some have talked about a “reproducibly crisis”, which often refers to the softer sciences such as psychology, but it’s just a prevalent in the life sciences, with many scientists, myself included, suspecting that over half of scientific literature is wrong.