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In the thread about "blockchain and trustworthy computing", Lodewijk
andré de la porte said:<br>
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<pre wrap="">We are supposed to be doing this with academic papers. Reproduce the result
at another university that's as different as possible (different sponsors,
affiliations, religions, researchers, nations, etc), and the
trustworthiness increases. Thing is - the VW cars fooled the procedure.
Replication does not make a difference. The procedure was faulty.</pre>
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I am interested in whether that is actually being carried out as a
standard procedure in any, or many, disciplines. I certainly don't
object to it as a goal and hence as "supposed to be doing". But <b>Science</b>
magazine, one of the major publishers of research articles in many
scientific subjects, recently carried the suggestion that this ought
to be done, as a reaction to the number of scientific papers that
have been retracted (worldwide, not just in <b>Science</b>)
recently. As a mathematician, where results don't usually depend on
lab equipment and procedures, the whole discovery and publication
activity is a little different from many of the subjects they
publish. But, from what I read in <b>Science</b>, I got the
impression this was not usually a condition for journal acceptance
in any subject. Is that so?<br>
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Bob Wilson<br>
(retired from University of Wisconsin math department)<br>
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