[kristiandupont]

I wish papers had a "this finding/conclusion has been replicated by the following people/groups: ..." as mandatory information, and that it was consensus that any non-replicated paper is considered speculative at best. But obviously that is not how things work.

[epistasis]

That's not the purpose of papers, the purpose of papers is to communicate to other scientists that might attempt to replicate the results.

People want "here's solved science" as fast as possible, which is understandable! We all do! But there has to be some channel to first disseminate results, and ideally that's a channel that is open to all, and not hidden from the public and limited to scientists only.

That channel is scientific publication. And science is not error-free, it is self-correcting. So expect errors, and expect them to hopefully be identified.

If you want things that are 100% solved, go to the science from engineering textbooks. If you want to be on the cutting edge, there's always some risk that the frontier of discovery will be wrong.