alt Hacker NewsScience relies on trust.. a lot. So things which show dishonesty are penalised greatly. If we were to remove trust then peer reviewing a paper might take months of work or even years.
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paulmist • yesterday at 6:12 PM
And that timeline only grows with the complexity of the field in question. I think this is inherently a function of the complexity of the study, and rather than harshly penalizing such shortcomings we should develop tools that address them and improve productivity. AI can speed up the verification of requirements like proper citations, both on the author's and reviewer's side.
Math does that. Peer review cycles are measured in years there. This does not stop fashionable subfields from publishing sloppy papers, and occasionally even irrecoverably false ones.