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> However, real scientists don't stop and accuse the original authors of being "unprincipled" -- nine-point-nine times out of ten, they work with the original authors to discover the discrepancies.

I'm not a real scientist or even a pretend one, and I'd like to believe your 9.9/10 figure, but don't delude yourself there aren't those out there publishing papers for the sake of nothing more than retaining their position in a university. Or bumping their citation count or pushing an agenda or whatever.

We're in this 'reproducibility crisis' precisely because this game of science being played doesn't reward reproducibility and scientists are just as much participants as publishers are.