[SiempreViernes]

The usual way is someone writing a better paper and everyone going "yeah, that's a better reading of the data".

Not sure why you say correcting an established consensus would be unrewarding? Sure, for unimportant details getting a correction out isn't much fun, but correcting an important point is basically the career goal of every scientist precisely because it is important and rewarding.

[marcus_holmes]

From the author, who specifically stated that this task of correcting bad science is unrewarding.

[Jolter]

She stated it is unrewarding because the university didn’t reprimand or remove the bad researcher, and because most papers didn’t retract the bad papers. She didn’t produce new studies disproving the results of the existing one, which might have been a more rewarding pursuit for someone who had that inclination. I’m sure the author has other ideas about what research she should do, and it’s not for us to say.

[marcus_holmes]

Yeah, I hear this a lot. That the goal of every scientist is to disprove the consensus and overturn bad science. Yet every time I read a blog article by someone who has actually tried to overturn bad science, they say it's an uphill battle against bad incentives, vested interests and academic politics.

If you know of a scientist who has written about succeeding in achieving this objective and had a great time (in the last 20 years), can you point me to their writing, please?