I’m not involved in any science fields so for all I know this is a thing that exists, but if it is, it isn’t discussed much: perhaps some scientific fields (or even all of them?) need an incentive for refuting other peoples’ experiments. As far as I understand it, many experiments only ever get reproduced by a 3rd party when somebody needs it in order to build on their own hypothesis. So in other words, “so-and-so validated hypothesis X1 via this experiment. I have made hypothesis X2 which is predicated on X1′s validity, so I’ll reproduce the experiment before moving forward”.
What if there was a journal dedicated to publishing research papers whose goal is purely to invalidate prior experiments? Or even more extreme, a Nobel prize in Invalidation? Could some fields be made more reliable if more people were put to the task of reproducing experiments?
I’m not involved in any science fields so for all I know this is a thing that exists, but if it is, it isn’t discussed much: perhaps some scientific fields (or even all of them?) need an incentive for refuting other peoples’ experiments. As far as I understand it, many experiments only ever get reproduced by a 3rd party when somebody needs it in order to build on their own hypothesis. So in other words, “so-and-so validated hypothesis X1 via this experiment. I have made hypothesis X2 which is predicated on X1′s validity, so I’ll reproduce the experiment before moving forward”.
What if there was a journal dedicated to publishing research papers whose goal is purely to invalidate prior experiments? Or even more extreme, a Nobel prize in Invalidation? Could some fields be made more reliable if more people were put to the task of reproducing experiments?