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by abdou4a 1143 days ago
>> you can mostly assume that the paper is valid

you should check this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging or P-hacking

and many more...

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Yes! I'm well aware of the replication crisis.

While this is valid, this shouldn't make us paranoid of all papers. If it's a paper out of your expertise, it's unlikely that you would be able to catch problems with it that the peer review process wouldn't have caught.

So in practice, it doesn't really change the way you interact with papers - it should change the way people write them and how the peer review process works.