[staunton]

In fact, there's even more incentives for researchers to make reproducing their work as hard as possible. For example, what if someone tried to reproduce it and found contradictory results? In both cases (reproducer made mistake, original made mistake) it's additional hassle that the original authors can basically only suffer and never gain.

[edgyquant]

This is just you confirming that tons of research is essentially fraudulent. If it can be contradicted it absolutely should be, that is how fields progress and weed out bad ideas.