[Penyngton]

Yes, certainly things like corruption, jealousy and ego games do exist in pure maths, but I just wanted to contest the other comment's assertion that pure mathematics is completely closed to outsiders, let alone ones who could resolve the Riemann Hypothesis.

Furthermore, I could believe that the above issues and, as you also mention, reproducibility, are worse in pure mathematics or theoretical CS than in other fields because so little is at stake. Which is not to say I think most maths papers are false, but just that they're not all _entirely_ true either. Their audience is so small and the readers/reviewers "know what they mean" anyway, most of the time. And others are just false and no-one noticed because they couldn't be bothered to check the details, because the result was inconsequential to their own work and the author was a nice enough chap...